On Intervention
“Humanitarian Intervention”
Noam Chomsky
Never Trust Imperialists (Especially When They Turn Pacifist)
Christopher Hitchens
Intervention and Resistance
Richard Falk
Should We Risk Lives to Save Lives?
Diane F. Orentlicher
Free Reign for the Sole Superpower?
Carl Conetta, Charles Knight, and Robert Leavitt
Outside the Blue Nile
Yusef Komunyakaa
A Post-Modern Romance?
Alan A. Stone
Is There a Right to be Homeless?
Vivian Rothstein
Poet’s Sampler
Thomas Lux introduces Kevin Pilkington
Confusion City
Alice Mattison
The Toss
Cyrus Cassells
Brief Reviews
Otherwise by Eleanor Wilner
David Gewanter
An Untold Tale by Jonathan Strong
Maxine Rodburg
A Child Is Not A Knife by Göran Sonnevi
Don Share
Stained Glass by Rosanna Warren
Sue Standing
Readers’ Forum
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
Tu ne quaesieris (Ode I.11)
Horace, translated by David Ferry
