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Letters
Salon Staff
Let's talk about Great Art. Readers respond to Joshua Fineberg's "Classical Music: Why Bother?"
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Dreaming of the long-forgotten Caravelle: Why do today's jetliners look so ugly?
MOSEX opens doors — earth doesn’t move
Damien Cave
Overserious, rushed and muddled, the Museum of Sex comes across like an awkward adolescent on a first date.
Running with the bad girls
Dr. Lynn Ponton
What's the solution when teens hang out with the wrong kind of kids? Don't despair, says Dr. Ponton. Parents have far more influence than they realize.
“Regime change” — and then what?
Michelle Goldberg
Bush and his supporters speak earnestly about "democratizing Iraq." Many experts aren't nearly as optimistic.
Michael and me
Jeff Stark
Michael Moore's new film "Bowling for Columbine" is a heavy-handed, semicoherent diatribe about gun violence. But when I showed up to confront him about it, he charmed me senseless and beat me at my own game.
Riding along with the Internet Bookmobile
Richard Koman
Angered by a law that extends copyright terms for 20 years, a crusader named Brewster Kahle wants to use the Internet to make books available to everyone.
When Playboy was hot
Charles Taylor
Once upon a time, magazines were meant to be read, not just eyeballed. Today's readers lust for that kind of literary excitement.
Clear the field
Joan Walsh
Dusty Baker is the greatest manager in San Francisco Giants history. So why is team owner Peter Magowan on the verge of letting him go?
“Live From New York” by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller
Eric Boehlert
A new book about "Saturday Night Live" dishes the backstage dirt on sex, drugs and fistfights, but lacks the guts to ask if the show still matters.
Sex, fate, and Zeus and Hera’s kinkiest argument
Laura Miller
"Middlesex" author Jeffrey Eugenides talks about
hermaphrodites, ethnic assimilation, Detroit and whether men or women enjoy sex more.
In greed we trusted
Andrew Leonard
Robert Bryce's Enron book entertainingly chronicles fraudulent excesses and office sex. But was Enron a fluke -- or capitalism taken to its logical extreme?
Weapons of mass distraction
Wagner James Au
A new breed of computer games is teaching today's teenagers how to wage, and win, the war against terror.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to Michelle Kennedy's "Mothers Who Sell" and Janelle Brown's "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime for My Gucci Bills?"
What should the world do about Saddam?
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton electrifies a British Labor Party conference with a more sweeping vision for global peace and progress than the current president has been able to muster.
Great expectations
Salon Staff
Parents can't overpower nature in defining their children's personalities, says Dr. Lawrence Diller. But they have enormous influence when it comes to behavior.
A dying breed
Louis Bayard
In the new world of body-slamming right-wing politics, what's a snooty, fake-patrician
Rethinking the Nazi nightmare
Suzy Hansen
Two historians challenge the idea that the Holocaust was unique, describe how anti-Semitism was worse in prewar America than in Germany and compare Hitler & Co. to the '60s generation.
Classical music: Why bother?
Joshua Fineberg
A composer and Harvard professor wonders whether his craft has been left behind by a world with no patience for Great Art.
Radio killed the radio star
Todd Spencer
Consolidation has resulted in 10,000 layoffs, the demise of a beloved trade magazine, and a decline in programming quality. But industry execs are fat and happy.
A beacon of sanity
Michelle Goldberg
In an age of religious fanatics, patriotic zealots and self-righteous leftists, Salman Rushdie champions free thinking and fun.
A New York state of mind
Peter Catapano
Salman Rushdie talks about why he was banished by Bush I, the light and dark sides of Islam, and his new life in Manhattan.
Mau-mauing the Middle East
Michelle Goldberg
Palestinians are the latest chic cause on campus. Now American Jews are trying to brand criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic -- and even un-American.
Sexy monkeys and mutant bunnies
Douglas Cruickshank
Painter Laurie Hogin uses the style of Old Masters and a frightening menagerie of beasts to illustrate the nightmares to be found in the American dream.
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