Against the Genetic Grain Against the Genetic Grain
I first heard of Jon Beckwith in the mid-1970s, in a question framed by my genetics professor: Why would anyone willfully disrupt a research program designed to collect useful ...
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Marks
Reading Leonardo Reading Leonardo
In 1906, the French savant Pierre Duhem published a three-volume work on Leonardo as scientist under the innocuous title Études sur Leonard de Vinci. It was the work's s...
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
‘For the Monkey’ ‘For the Monkey’
When James Agee wrote in these pages sixty years ago, he often complained of the paltriness of this or that movie, as judged against the events of the day.
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Urgent Antiwar Activism–UPDATED Urgent Antiwar Activism–UPDATED
George W. Bush has launched war with Iraq, a war that is unnecessary, unwise and illegal. In response, a wave of angry antiwar protests began to roll across Europe and the Middle...
Mar 20, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
Iraq and Beyond Iraq and Beyond
The Bush Administration has launched a war against Iraq, a war that is unnecessary, unwise and illegal.
Mar 19, 2003 / The Editors
Finally, A Dream of War Comes True Finally, A Dream of War Comes True
A few months ago, I was in a television studio with one of Washington's leading pro-war cheerleaders. After we finished our mini-debate, he asked if I thoug...
Mar 18, 2003 / David Corn
A War Begun in Failure A War Begun in Failure
It appears that George W. Bush will get his war. But it will be a war begun in failure. Even as Republican and Democratic Congressional leaders in the United States dutifully sign...
Mar 18, 2003 / John Nichols
A Naked Bid to Redraw World Map A Naked Bid to Redraw World Map
The island bit over the weekend was a revealing farce.
Mar 18, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
A Lesson in Diplomacy A Lesson in Diplomacy
This article was originally published on March 18, 2003.
Mar 18, 2003 / Feature / Juliet Johnson