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The New Humanitarianism

How military intervention became the norm.

  • John Tirman

Dominance and Its Dilemmas

The Bush administration’s imperial grand strategy.

  • Noam Chomsky

The Iraqi Shiites

On the history of America’s would-be allies.

  • Juan Cole

Shock and Awe Meets Market Shock

The dangerous mix of economic and military goals in Iraq

  • Duncan Kennedy

The Flame Tree of Freedom: Poetry and Apartheid

  • Peter Anderson

The Hard Road to Fascism

Today’s antiliberal revolt looks a lot like 1920s Europe.

  • Abbott Gleason

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Brazil’s Hope

Can President Lula redeem democracy in Latin America?

  • Leonardo Avritzer

Weapons of Mass Confusion

The new emphasis on WMDs has not been accompanied by any serious public discussion of the differences among such weapons.

  • Owen R. Cote, Jr.

A Warning from History

Don’t expect democracy in Iraq.

  • John W. Dower

Waiting for War in Damascus

Syria has been opening up. A war will shut it down.

  • Helena Cobban

Nationalism’s Mired Hopes

Partition, Cold War, and the conflict in Kashmir.

  • Uday Singh Mehta

The Best Defense

The problem with Bush’s “preemptive” war doctrine.

  • Neta C. Crawford

Skirting the Issue

French literature is out of touch with social realities.

  • Patrick Erouart-Siad

The Diaspora and the Intifada

The responsibility of American Jews.

  • Ben-Zion Gold

Fenced In

As Arafat declines and Israel’s grip tightens, the Middle East sinks into hopelessness.

  • Helena Cobban

Justice or Therapy?

Deabtes on how to heal from the Rwandan genocide. 

  • Kenneth Roth
  • Alison DesForges
  • Helena Cobban

The Legacies of Collective Violence

The Rwandan genocide and the limits of law.

  • Helena Cobban

Nationalism in Exile

Following the political dreams of refugee communities

  • John Tirman

Secret Histories

Creating a Colombian national identity through crime fiction.

  • Santiago Gamboa

The Wound and the Dream

In Haiti, a militant, prophetic literature thrives alongside political disaster.

  • Patrick Erouart-Siad

The Wound and the Dream

In Haiti, a militant, prophetic literature thrives alongside political disaster.

  • Patrick Erouart-Siad

Trading Truth for Justice?

South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

  • Susie Linfield

Is Privacy Bad for Women?

What the Indian constitutional tradition can teach about sex equality.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

The Cult of Authenticity

India’s cultural commissars worship “Indianness” instead of art.

  • Vikram Chandra
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