The Logic of Suicide Terrorism
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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 Terror
Bruce Hoffman, a world-renowned expert on terrorism, talks about the strategy behind the suicide bombings in Israel—and what we must learn from Israel's response [Web only]
Who 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 Life
Azar Nafisi, the author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, on the dangers of using religion as an ideology, and the freedoms that literature can bring [Web only]
Still 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.
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