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Chapter 33: Monday, Dec. 18
Alfred Alcorn
In which Korky and Norman attend a ball, but don't dance (with each other), and Mr. Dearth tears into lawyers.
There is no alternative to war
David Rieff
Blame-the-U.S. pacifism misses the point. Bin Laden wants to eradicate Western modernity, not liberate Palestine, and the U.S. has no choice but to fight him.
Irony is dead! Long live irony!
David Beers
As jingoists call for a New Sincerity, we need irony -- the serious kind -- more than ever.
What’s up with Generation Y?
Jim DeRogatis
Will the largest teen generation in history prove to be a mass of zombie
consumers -- or an awakened giant filled with a terrible resolve?
Terror’s first victims
Janelle Brown
When fanatics like the Taliban seize control of Islamic countries, women are the first to suffer.
Kurt Cobain and a dream about pop
Bill Wyman
In an age of corporate consolidation, Kurt Cobain turned an industry upside down. And in an age of media prying, he died right in front of our eyes.
Networks of terror
John Leonard
As television hypes the coming war, the nation watches passively. Stunned by grief, we've shut ourselves up.
No more street fighting man
David Moberg
In the wake of the terrorist attacks, the anti-globalization movement is trying to rein in violence -- and preparing for a hard road ahead
Why Americans can’t find Islam on the map
Eric Boehlert
Few colleges offer comprehensive courses in Arabic or Middle Eastern studies, and even fewer students seem to care.
“The golden age of intelligence is before us”
Laura Rozen
Robert Kaplan says fighting terrorism will
require new rules for spying, but he
predicts that fighting an "almost comic book evil" will lead to a revival.
How the U.S. will fight
Anthony York, Damien Cave
A combination of special forces, lethal stealth, diplomacy and old-fashioned military power will be used to battle terrorists.
Consciousness on overload
Caroline Knapp
A memoirist seeks to untangle the mass of contradictory emotions following the tragedy that changed our lives forever.
Hunting Osama
Max Garrone
The author of "Black Hawk Down" and "Killing Pablo" says that American special forces have been training to go after bin Laden for years and are more than ready.
The “enemy” we barely know
Laura Miller
A writer who has traveled extensively in Afghanistan talks about how little we understand its people, how dangerous it is to underestimate them and why they have cause to resent the U.S.
Rally round the flag
King Kaufman
I love Old Glory. I just wonder if I can take it back from the creeps who've waved it all my life.
The bloody Jordan river now flows through America
Gary Kamiya
A sword will hang over the U.S. until we convince Israel to make peace with the Palestinians.
Bin Laden’s American blood brothers
David Horowitz
The day terror struck our country, homegrown extremists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn waxed nostaglic about their own bombing exploits.
Real Life Rock Top 10
Greil Marcus
Too much God?
Joan Walsh
When the Rev. Jerry Falwell blamed the ACLU and other liberals for Tuesday's attack, he proved he's America's answer to the Taliban. But that doesn't mean there's no place for God in our expressions of national mourning.
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