Issue 88
July 2003
Contents
The Christian Zionists
20th July 2003 — Issue 88
The powerful alliance between a part of America's Christian right and Likudnik Israelis could wreck the road map to peace
Danish porridge
20th July 2003 — Issue 88
I came to love my Danish country hospital and its reassuring routines; now it is being closed down
Out of order
20th July 2003 — Issue 88
Some parts of Iraq face not merely political chaos but long-term social breakdown
Anti anti-humanism
20th July 2003 — Issue 88
John Gray's philosophy of pessimism is as arbitrary and unfounded as the Enlightenment ideas he rejects
The American contract
20th July 2003 — Issue 88
Nothing solid has taken the place of the retreating doctrine of national sovereignty. How can the US be brought back into the international fold?
Cannes vs America
20th July 2003 — Issue 88
What appeared to be anti-Americanism at the Cannes film festival was really a renewal in film language
The butterfly flap
20th July 2003 — Issue 88
In 1999, research suggested that genetically-modified corn might be killing off the monarch butterfly. What followed was exactly the kind of argument that is good for public health
Living with deflation
20th July 2003 — Issue 88
Deflation makes us anxious because it is something we have never experienced. But we should worry less
A Tory plebiscite
20th July 2003 — Issue 88
EU governance is closer to the Lockean ideal than the US or British constitutions. A referendum is unjustified
Now it's personal
20th July 2003 — Issue 88
My worries about the mendacity and prejudice of British media culture have now been reinforced by painful experience
The absent centre
20th July 2003 — Issue 88
New Labour helped destroy the old politics but has not created a new one. We need partisans for moderation
Muslims in Britain
20th July 2003 — Issue 88
British Muslims do not have a problem with democracy. Some of them do have a problem with multiculturalism
Making capitalism pay
20th July 2003 — Issue 88
Anglo-Saxon capitalism has seen its reputation plummet. Is tougher punishment the answer?
Science is progressing
20th July 2003 — Issue 88
A book on the greatest developments in our understanding of the universe is stimulating but flawed
Too many wild Oates
20th July 2003 — Issue 88
The ever-abundant Joyce Carol Oates continues to create fresh shocks - too many
Cleaving to Clinton
20th July 2003 — Issue 88
Sidney Blumenthal has rightly used his insider perspective to describe the right-wing plot to destroy Clinton
Is new opera possible?
20th July 2003 — Issue 88
For 25 years opera failed to create new masterpieces. Now the barren years may finally be over