On Intervention

“Humanitarian Intervention”

Noam Chomsky

Never Trust Imperialists (Especially When They Turn Pacifist)

Christopher Hitchens

Intervention and Resistance

Richard Falk

Should We Risk Lives to Save Lives?

Diane F. Orentlicher

Free Reign for the Sole Superpower?

Carl Conetta, Charles Knight, and Robert Leavitt


Outside the Blue Nile

Yusef Komunyakaa

A Post-Modern Romance?

Alan A. Stone

Is There a Right to be Homeless?

Vivian Rothstein

Poet’s Sampler

Thomas Lux introduces Kevin Pilkington

Confusion City

Alice Mattison

The Toss

Cyrus Cassells

Brief Reviews

Reviewed:

Otherwise

by Eleanor Wilner. University of Chicago Press, 1993.

An Untold Tale

by Jonathan Strong. Zoland Books, 1993.

A Child Is Not A Knife

by Göran Sonnevi, translated and edited by Rika Lesser. Princeton University Press, 1993.

Stained Glass

by Rosanna Warren. W. W. Norton & Co., 1993.


Readers’ Forum

More on “Intellectuals in the Age of Crack”

With Eric Foner, Cathy J. Cohen, Noel Ignatiev, Harvey Cox, and Clyde N. Wilson

On “Democracy and the New Information Highway”

With Alan Shaw, Sven Birkerts, Richard Stallman, Vinton Cerf, Nathan Myhrvold. Mitchell Kapor replies.

Letters to the Editor


Tu ne quaesieris (Ode I.11)

Horace, translated by David Ferry