Letters Letters
WE SHINE FOR ALL Chicago Your magazine remains a beacon of hope for all of us, even those who revile you for your progressive values--because we all lose...
Oct 4, 2001 / Our Readers
Season’s Greetings Season’s Greetings
Telluride, Toronto and After For folks involved in film, seasonal clocks can be set by the annual confluence of international film festivals (Telluride, Toronto, New York, Edinb...
Oct 4, 2001 / Books & the Arts / B. Ruby Rich
NYC’s Mayoral Muddle NYC’s Mayoral Muddle
In our August 20 issue we endorsed Mark Green, a lifelong liberal who has been running as a liberal centrist, for mayor of New York City. Two weeks before a runoff election aga...
Oct 4, 2001 / Michael Tomasky
Indispensable Indispensable
(An old Nat "King" Cole song, as sung by Rudy "King" Giuliani) Indispensable, that's what I am. I'm an icon now, like Uncle Sam. I'm the rock this town is built up...
Oct 4, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Intelligence Test Intelligence Test
Another Pearl Harbor! That was the reaction of many after hijackers managed to turn airliners into low-tech cruise missiles and kill 6,000 people.
Oct 3, 2001 / Feature / David Corn
Coming Together in Union Square Coming Together in Union Square
With downtown Manhattan below 14th Street initially closed off to the public after the terrorist attacks of September 11, people began to gather spontaneously in Union Square Park...
Sep 30, 2001 / Feature / Adina Schecter and Sarah Yahm
Letter From Ground Zero: September 27, 2001 Letter From Ground Zero: September 27, 2001
I was somehow unprepared by television for what I saw when I arrived at Ground Zero.
Sep 27, 2001 / Jonathan Schell
What Spain Interrupted What Spain Interrupted
Antonio de Herrera, the royal chronicler of Philip II, writing about the conquest of the New World in Historia General, included these lines: The nations of New Spain preserved...
Sep 27, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans
Dreaming of War Dreaming of War
To imagine that this national emergency is good for us is a dangerous mistake.
Sep 27, 2001 / Feature / Ellen Willis
Haunted by the Cold War Haunted by the Cold War
Haunted by the Cold War We regret that space considerations permit us to print only a few of the many letters we received on Martin Duberman's "A Fellow Traveling," ...
Sep 27, 2001 / Victor Navasky, Martin Duberman, and Our Readers