Totem and Taboo Totem and Taboo
It did not take long for a term that not long ago was slanderous to become a cliché.
Sep 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Ronald Steel
The Bush Crusade The Bush Crusade
Sacred violence, again unleashed in 2001, could prove as destructive as in 1096.
Sep 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / James Carroll
The Big Sleep The Big Sleep
From its inception, the AIDS pandemic has generated extraordinary expressions of sadness and anger. The sadness is easy to understand.
Aug 26, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Sheila M. Rothman
Lewis of Arabia Lewis of Arabia
I have witnessed what Bernard Lewis, and later Samuel Huntington, designated the "clash of civilizations" between Christendom and Islam up close in at least two wars.
Aug 26, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Charles Glass
The Life of the Mind The Life of the Mind
Isaiah Berlin once told his biographer, Michael Ignatieff, that "I have a natural tendency to gossip, to describing things, to noticing things, to interest in human beings and th...
Aug 26, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Sunil Khilnani
The Middle Man The Middle Man
Over the century that followed the Napoleonic wars, the Ottoman Empire contracted and eventually disappeared from the map.
Aug 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mazower
The Lost Steps The Lost Steps
American policy-makers may be divided into two schools of thought on the Arab-Israeli conflict: the evenhanded and the Israel-first.
Aug 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Avi Shlaim
Holy Water Holy Water
Walden Pond is America's environmental holy land, the naturalist's sacred site and Concord's local swimming pool.
Jul 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Jane Holtz Kay
Latin America’s Longest War Latin America’s Longest War
In May, Jan Egeland, the United Nations Undersecretary for Humanitarian Affairs, called a news conference in New York to declare publicly what he had been warning people about fo...
Jul 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Peter Canby
Laughter in the Dark Laughter in the Dark
Stalin has had a rough time at the hands of Russian novelists in recent years.
Jul 15, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Boris Fishman