Community Values Community Values
Allison Xantha Miller reviews The Rise and Fall of Synanon: A California Utopia, by Rod Janzen, and Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center,...
Dec 7, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Allison Xantha Miller
Holocaust Imponderables Holocaust Imponderables
Paul Reitter reviews Essays on Hitler's Europe, by István Deák.
Dec 7, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
Hymn to Necessity Hymn to Necessity
With a chain saw and axe, we've spent a long Morning cutting up a sycamore the storm Brought down. For all twelve years we've lived here, It has shaded over our kitchen window, Upheld the various tire swings and feeders, The candle-lit rice paper Japanese lanterns, And even, on one occasion, one corner Of a straw-hooped canopy for a wedding. So borne in mind, we've come to find that, Rinsing our dishes in the sink at lunch, The clearing it leaves over-brims itself And turns what's not there outside in, But how good the sun feels in its absence, And how like absence to surprise us this way.
Dec 7, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Sherod Santos
Letter From Ground Zero: December 6, 2001 Letter From Ground Zero: December 6, 2001
With the Taliban engaged in Afghanistan, where will the US now train its sights?
Dec 7, 2001 / Jonathan Schell
Bush’s Globalized NATO Bush’s Globalized NATO
As envisioned by the Administration, it's unilateralism with a multilateral face.
Dec 7, 2001 / Feature / Sherle R. Schwenninger
Witnessing Germany Witnessing Germany
Eric Weinberger reviews The Healing Wound: Experiences amd Reflections on Germany, 1938–2001, by Gitta Sereny.
Dec 7, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Eric Weinberger
More Juice? More Juice?
What plagued the O.J. Simpson trial—corruption, malfeasance and a breakdown of the rule of law—is exactly what the 'war on terror' is achieving in its blind que...
Dec 7, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Ashcroft Skates Ashcroft Skates
Cowed Democrats fail to confront Ashcroft's civil liberties violations.
Dec 6, 2001 / Feature / David Corn
It Is Crazy to Curtail Due Process Rules It Is Crazy to Curtail Due Process Rules
America's enemies are not uniquely 'evil,' and it's naive to think of them as such.
Dec 4, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer