Issue 96
March 2004
Contents
Two Chinas, one big problem
20th March 2004 — Issue 96
Elections in Taiwan may edge it towards autonomy from China. This puts America in a bind
Occupation reporter
20th March 2004 — Issue 96
The lessons I have learned setting up a newspaper in Iraq should be studied by the occupiers
Secularism in France
20th March 2004 — Issue 96
"Laïcité" - French-style secularism - is an ideology, defining what it means to be French
Emerging Democrats
20th March 2004 — Issue 96
In 2000 America was a 50:50 nation. But the long-term economic and cultural trends favour the Democrats.
Demon in the cellar
20th March 2004 — Issue 96
America's "Jacksonian" nationalism is responsible for turning the US from a conservative power to a revolutionary one
Rap's last tape
20th March 2004 — Issue 96
Sapped of verbal vitality and ghetto pride, hip hop's profanities are little more than a soundtrack to greed
Another America
20th March 2004 — Issue 96
If the Democrats had won in 2000, would American foreign policy after 9/11 have taken an alternative path?
Awayday spaceships
20th March 2004 — Issue 96
Bush's Mars announcement might mean the end of American humans in space
Spiral of silence
20th March 2004 — Issue 96
People are pretending to pollsters that they won't vote Labour
Neo-Stalinism
20th March 2004 — Issue 96
What happened to democracy in Russia? Why don't the Russians care?
Editing Gilligan
20th March 2004 — Issue 96
What could Andrew Gilligan's intelligence story have been?
Reasons of state
20th March 2004 — Issue 96
Can government evasiveness over Iraq be justified? Not quite
The biggest puzzles
20th March 2004 — Issue 96
Can we gain anything from a maths book so technical that only experts can keep up?
Learn to love the clone
20th March 2004 — Issue 96
No government should allow reproductive cloning near humans. But it will happen
The unsung constitution
20th March 2004 — Issue 96
The EU constitution is unglamorous, but it is what most governments wanted
Hunting the Celtic tiger
20th March 2004 — Issue 96
Fintan O'Toole, scourge of old Irish myths, has turned to the new myths of the economic miracle.
Lion of the desert
20th March 2004 — Issue 96
A minor sports personality, missing a testicle, sets out to conquer the Sahara