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The Logic of Suicide Terrorism Will suicide bombings one day become a fact of life in the U.S.? What should be done to prevent such a development? Join a discussion of Bruce Hoffman's cover story in the June Atlantic. The Reluctant Fan Do you secretly think baseball is boring? Does the economic side of baseball need a shakeup? See the complete forum index. |
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77 North Washington Street Michael Kelly (1957-2003)Letters to the Editor  A Transformative Moment by Michael Kelly Building Democracy Out of What? The Iraqi people, and anyone who wants to help them, will have to deal with the long-term psychological effects of life under Saddam by David Brooks Norman Ornstein's Doomsday Scenario What would happen if a bomb wiped out the federal government? by Michelle Cottle A Five-Step Program Enhancing American Civic Life A cartoon by Steve Brodner Primary Sources Selections from recent reports, studies, and other documents The World in Numbers The Weight of the World by Don Peck The Logic of Suicide Terrorism The perceived randomness of suicide bombings is in large part responsible for the emotional suffering that they inflict on society. But the planners of these attacks use a strategy that is anything but random: they aim to relentlessly shrink to nothing the areas in which people can move freely by Bruce Hoffman An Interview With Bruce Hoffman: The Calculus of TerrorWho Shot Mohammed al-Dura? The image of a twelve-year-old boy shot dead in his helpless father's arms during a confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians has become a symbol of Israeli, and by extension American, oppression. But emerging evidence suggests that the boy cannot have died in the way reported by most of the world's media by James Fallows JFK's Second Term A fresh look at the final months of the presidency of John F. Kennedy indicates that a second Kennedy term might have produced not only an American withdrawal from Vietnam but also rapprochement with Fidel Castro's Cuba by Robert Dallek Too Much of a Good Thing The theoretical physicist who ignited the biggest firestorm in the history of the American photography market was simply trying to figure out if his vintage Lewis Hine photos were genuine by Richard B. Woodward First Pantoum of Summer A poem by Erica Funkhouser [audio] Monstress A short story by Lysley Tenorio Aria A poem by Teresa Cader [audio] Tar Pit A poem by David Barber [audio] The Two Fronts A drawing by Guy Billout  New & Noteworthy A study of seventeenth-century letters that is "one of the best histories of the year"; a new biography that revises our understanding of Abraham Lincoln's view of the Civil War; an architectural chronicle and social history of late-nineteenth-century Chicago; books that shed new light on George Orwell and on his second wife, Sonia reviewed by Benjamin Schwarz The Reluctant Fan "Misting up," the author writes, reviewing a new book on the economics of baseball, "is one of two physiological reactions the game tends to produce." The other is "unconsciousness" reviewed by David Kipen Aural History Bob Woodward, the doyen of capital insiders, has written a misleading account of the buildup to the war in Iraq by Christopher Hitchens Book Group in Chadors An outstanding and unusual memoir of post-revolutionary Iran reviewed by Mona Simpson An Interview With Azar Nafisi: The Fiction of LifeStill Growing Michael Byers's first novel, though ambitious and often engaging, suggests that he hasn't yet made the leap from short stories reviewed by Thomas Mallon Lost in Translation A new English version of Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir lacks the essential tone and style of the original reviewed by Philip Hensher  INNOCENT BYSTANDER: Moving On, and On From the Transition Index to the Rapture Index by Cullen Murphy SPEECH: Sir Thomas Browne, Jorge Luis Borges, y Yo A commencement address by William Hamilton FOOD: A New Chestnut The work of a dedicated few may eventually restore America's blighted chestnut forests to their former vastness. One happy consequence can already be tasted by Corby Kummer The Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Court by Barbara Wallraff
Cover: X-ray courtesy of the Department of Radiology and the Trauma Unit, The Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel. All material copyright © 2003 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved. |
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