politics and culture/east and west

The Iowa Caucuses: American Democracy’s Naked Emperor

The UN, George Bush, and You

Patriots, Terrorists, and Liberty’s Future

Reading Lolita in Tehran, and in Baghdad, and in Hungary, and in New York

Justice, Peace, and Memory — From East Europe to Iraq

Seeing the War from Abroad

Pop Politicians

Prague Is Pop

Cher Was No Gypsy

Prague: A Dual Heritage of Beauty and Sacrifice

Dracula’s Revenge

Democratic Vistas: East and West (with apologies to Walt Whitman)