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“The Majestic”
Charles Taylor
The new Jim Carrey movie is an elephantine, oppressively sentimental look at small-town America at the time of the Hollywood blacklist.
The media’s favorite Arab expert
Eric Boehlert
Scholar Fouad Ajami has garnered more prime-time airplay than any other commentator on Arab-Muslim issues. But critics say he's far from a representative voice.
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to Charles Taylor's "Trauma Culture" and Laura Calder's "Recipe for Boredom."
The techno-thrill is gone
Andrew Leonard
After Sept. 11, we know digital wizardry can't save the world -- or even distract us from horror. But don't trash those gadgets yet.
Ghost arcade
Scott Rosenberg
Old video games never die -- they just become collectibles and haunt our dreams.
The education of Little Fraud
Allen Barra
How did a racist speechwriter for George Wallace turn into a "Cherokee" sage and author of a revered multicultural text? The weird tale of Asa ("Forrest") Carter.
The midnight ride of James Woolsey
Asla Aydintasbas
The former CIA director presents himself as the Paul Revere of the terrorism age, trying to waken America to its greatest threat -- Saddam Hussein. Should we be listening?
Music industry in the pits!
Eric Boehlert
Record sales are down, no one's seeing concerts, no one's advertising on radio and the stars are revolting!
Leaping to conclusions
Tamim Ansary
Well-meaning observers are making dangerous assumptions about Afghan women and their goals for the future.
Trauma culture
Charles Taylor
From Oklahoma City to New York, we've turned violent human loss into epic narratives of suffering and patriotism. Does this help people heal or hurt them?
The Enron outrage
Thomas Frank
Free-market ideologues said the energy titan's triumphs proved them right. Now they should admit its humiliating collapse proves they were wrong.
“Vanilla Sky”
Stephanie Zacharek
Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz and -- gasp! -- Cameron Crowe dump the first massive lump of Christmas coal.
“Child Stars”
Salon Staff
Never shy to state his opinion, Dennis Miller takes pity on Haley Joel Osment and makes it clear why you ought to keep your child away from Hollywood.
An Afghan aristocrat fights for equality
Janelle Brown
Leila Enayat-Seraj rolls up her couture sleeves to rescue Afghan art and restore civil rights for women.
It’s not just Hamas
Norah Vincent
It's time for America to stop coddling the Palestinians -- they're bloodthirsty bigots who would have exterminated the Jews if they were in charge.
The secret history of Mr. Happy
David Bowman
"A Mind of Its Own" author David M. Friedman chats about the long, uncut history of the penis.
Ready for her close-up
Janelle Brown
A doctor, educator, human rights activist and mother, Habiba Sarabi longs for a chance to work -- legally -- back home in Afghanistan.
“Pi
Charles Taylor
A mythologizing biopic about a junkie playwright, thief and con man. The movie's a con, too.
All quiet on the homefront
Jennifer Foote Sweeney
Today's wartime propaganda suggests normalcy and consumption, a far cry from the government's campaign during World War II, which called upon Americans to completely change their way of life.
America’s handy new Insta-Traitor: Just add hot-tub water and stir!
Scott Rosenberg
Conservatives who say that America-hating California relativism produced John Walker don't know what they're talking about -- literally.
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