Intelligentsia at Play Intelligentsia at Play
Tom Stoppard's 'Coast of Utopia'
Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carol Rocamora
The Humanitarian Temptation The Humanitarian Temptation
In 2000, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan posed a question to the Millennium Summit of the UN: "If humanitarian intervention is, indeed, an unacceptable assault on s...
Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams
Report From Gujarat Report From Gujarat
Abida Bano sits on the floor of a crowded makeshift relief building in Ahmedebad, the largest city in Gujarat, holding her 10-month-old daughter.
Nov 21, 2002 / Feature / Miranda Kennedy
Half a Victory at the UN Half a Victory at the UN
Iraq's decision to accept the United Nations Security Council resolution, passed unanimously on November 8, sets in motion a tightly scripted plan for UN arms inspectors to ret...
Nov 14, 2002 / Editorial / Phyllis Bennis
The Antiwar Movement and Its Critics The Antiwar Movement and Its Critics
Do we have an antiwar movement? We're getting there.
Nov 14, 2002 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Mystery in Milan Mystery in Milan
On March 16, 1972, readers in Italy and throughout the publishing world were shocked by the day's headlines.
Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / André Schiffrin
Back in the USSR Back in the USSR
The study of the Soviet Union in the United States, as distinguished from random journalism, memoirs and polemics, began on the right foot.
Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Abraham Brumberg
The Silver Lining of General Rove’s Victory In the Midterm Elections The Silver Lining of General Rove’s Victory In the Midterm Elections
The talk of war has done its job. Rove's hopes were far exceeded. So maybe, with the voting done, The war itself's not needed.
Nov 14, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Atop the Volcano Atop the Volcano
Gioconda Belli--poet, novelist, society belle reborn as Sandinista comrade--has written a memoir of the Nicaraguan struggle that reads like a romance--a romance with politics a...
Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Anderson Tepper
Making 34 Million Friends Making 34 Million Friends
The night after the Bush Administration announced its refusal to grant the United Nations Population Fund $34 million dollars, Jane Roberts was so outraged she couldn't sleep.
Nov 12, 2002 / Feature / Emily Biuso