War Games War Games
In the players' handbooks that once circulated among commedia dell'arte troupes, the wandering actors of early modern Italy used to set down inventories of the lazzi, or comic tu...
Oct 28, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Iraq’s Civilian Casualties Iraq’s Civilian Casualties
The civilians of Falluja are negotiating to stave off a threatened US-led military incursion.
Oct 28, 2004 / Jefferson Morley
Because We Could Because We Could
When George H.W.
Oct 21, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Cockburn
Tarantara! Tarantara!
Twenty months ago, when the Bush Administration was steering the country toward war in Iraq, we noted a parallel with another military misadventure, the Spanish-American War, in ...
Oct 14, 2004 / Jonathan Schell and John Maxwell Hamilton
Letter From Poland Letter From Poland
Bush has managed to puncture Poles' image of America as essentially good.
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
Why does the United States--born in a people's war for national independence from the greatest empire of its time--have such a difficult time understanding the people's wars of i...
Sep 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
A Short History of Someone Who Failed to Get Into the Champagne Unit of the Texas Air National Guard in 1968 A Short History of Someone Who Failed to Get Into the Champagne Unit of the Texas Air National Guard in 1968
I wasn't really for the war.
But all my kin, in wars before,
Had gone when called. I couldn't flee.
No, Canada was not for me.
Another thing that I was not
Sep 16, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Election Matters Election Matters
The presidential pageant has now risen full in the sky and is blocking out the sun.
Sep 16, 2004 / William Greider
Still Sliming Away Still Sliming Away
(Karl Rove & Co. knock off Paul Simon's "Slip Slidin' Away")
Sep 9, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Vietnam Confessions of George W. Bush The Vietnam Confessions of George W. Bush
"I am angry that so many sons of the powerful and well placed...managed to wangle slots in Reserve and National Guard units." --Colin Powell on the Vietnam War, in My American J...
Aug 26, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin