December/January 1993-94--Vol. XVIII, No. 6

• About the Review
• About the Contributors
• the Boston Review Democracy Project

Contents

ON INTERVENTION

• "Humanitarian Intervention" by Noam Chomsky
• Never Trust Imperialists (Especially When They Turn Pacifist), by Christopher Hitchens
• Intervention and Resistance, by Richard Falk
• Should We Risk Lives to Save Lives? by Diane F. Orentlicher
• Free Reign for the Sole Superpower? by Carl Conetta, Charles Knight, and Robert Leavitt

Outside the Blue Nile (poem)Yusef Komunyakaa

A Post-Modern Romance? A review of Claude Sautet's Un Coeur en Hiver, by Alan A. Stone

Is There a Right to be Homeless? by Vivian RothsteinA longtime advocate for the homeless thinks that current advocacy has gone off the rails.

Poet's Sampler: Thomas Lux introduces Kevin Pilkington

Confusion City (fiction), by Alice Mattison

The Toss (poem), by Cyrus Cassells

Tu ne quaesieris (Ode I.11) (poem), by Horace, translated by David Ferry

Brief Reviews

• The controversy about "Intellectuals in the Age of Crack" continues with Eric Foner, Cathy J. Cohen, Noel Ignatiev, Harvey Cox, and Clyde N. Wilson.
• A debate on Mitchell Kapor's "Democracy and the New Information Highway" with Alan Shaw, Sven Birkerts, Richard Stallman, Vinton Cerf, Nathan Myhrvold, and Mitchell Kapor.
• Letters to the Editor: Neil Gordon