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Seduced by war. - War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chirs Hedges - book review War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. By Chris Hedges. Public Affairs, 211 pp., $23.00; paperback, $12.95. CHRIS HEDGES'S penetrating insights into ......(Continue Reading) Found in translation; Jerry Springer: the opera has caused both delight and disgust in Britain. So how will it play in the US? What do Mary Poppins and Jerry Springer have in common? More, perhaps, than you'd expect. They are both the subjects of current West End shows inspired ......(Continue Reading)Wine: a glass of the finest joins people together like a patriotic song - Columns - Brief Article The Queen's golden jubilee was celebrated here with an innocent devotion to symbols that would have scandalised our editor. The neighbours clothed their ......(Continue Reading)Days between stations: red, white, and bluesthe sound of freedom in America - Music Column - Freedom: Songs from the Heart of America compact disc It didn't start with the terrorist attacks of 2001. People think of freedom and music together for the same reason we think of freedom and water: movement....(Continue Reading)Seeing through the lie that is war: from the nightmare of the battlefield, a warning against national self-worship - Cover Story - War Is the Force that Within hours of the attacks on the World Trade Center, amid the grief and mourning and confusion, the flags began to appear. Before long, the country ......(Continue Reading)
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