Issue 7. War
03.24.03 | by Thomas P. Joyner
This cultural fascination with forensic science as a way to know the unknowable and come to terms with the unthinkable found additional service recently as an unacknowledged weapon in the Bush Administration's arsenal against Iraq
03.18.03 | by
Following 9/11, pundits declared the death of reality TV. So why is it thriving?
02.17.03 | by Paul McLeary
A good chunk of the growing 9/11 genre -- yes, looking back over the past 18 months, we seem to have spawned a new literary category -- features trite and predictable titles in which heroes implore you to ''remember the sacrifice,'' while insiders at the
01.13.03 | by Julian Delasantellis
In many if not most cases on JAG, the party responsible for the crime is a member of the less-than-honorable civilian society
11.20.02 | by Laura Fokkena
Racial profiling and ethnic stereotyping are nothing new to Americans of Middle Eastern descent. Hollywood has long used images of bumbling, accented Arabs and Iranians as shorthand for "vile enemy"
09.27.02 | by David McGrath
America loves its athletes but resents their high salaries and attitude. But what if these multi-millionaire jocks had to do double duty as America's first-strike military force?
09.17.02 | by Christopher Wisniewski
The very notion that by watching a piece of narrative Hollywood filmmaking we can somehow come to know the reality of war is both prevalent and dubious
09.10.02 | by Jon Hooten
While we have haphazardly sprinkled our language with war's metaphors, is it possible that we have collectively forgotten how to think clearly about the literal phenomenon?
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