Fall 2025

The Hope for a Common European Foreign Policy

This past winter, as the debate over invading Iraq intensified, I received an e-mail announcement for an “anti-war” production of Shakespeare’s Henry V being staged in Los Angeles. For people who know the play only from Laurence Olivier’s Anglo-patriotic, World-War-II-era …

Participants with birthdays between the months of July and September were told to congregate at a bar and grill off Broadway in Midtown, a few minutes before 7 p.m. and to await further instructions. When I arrived, the bar was …

States, Rights and Justice

In the mid-twentieth century, antibiotics and modern medicine seemed to be eliminating the threat of infectious diseases. But since the 1980s and the emergence of HIV/AIDS and the subsequent appearances of Ebola, Hanta Fever, West Nile Virus, Lime Disease, SARS, …

Echoes from Ground Zero

Rebuilding Meaning After 9/11

The New Global Politics

Since the events of September 11, 2001, many in India have argued that if the United States can justify its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the name of combating terrorism, destroying weapons of mass destruction, and changing regimes, then …

If not for the Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, Barbershop might have been merely one of the most popular black films in American history. Written, directed, and produced by blacks, this tale of a day in the life of …

The Rule of Lawyers: How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America’s Rule of Law by Walter K. Olson St. Martin’s Press, 2002, 352 pp., $25.95 Democracy by Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government by Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod …

U.S. Military Might and Myths

The American government expected Iraqi Shiites to rise against Saddam Hussein during the U.S.-led war last spring: why was there no rising? Fear of the Baath regime intermixed with a sense that the United States betrayed them in the wake …

The Complete Works of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel; edited by Nathalie Babel; translated by Peter Constantine W.W. Norton, 2001, 1076 pp., $45.00 He was a squat man. He wore thick glasses. Photographs captured him badly-none make it clear why …