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December 26, 2003

	Simply Irresistible? by Kara Baskin What's the attraction of Paris Hilton and her new reality show, "The Simple Life"? web only				Sugar Plum Daddy by Emma Chastain It's a shame that today's Nutcracker bears no resemblance to the original, nineteenth-century novella. web only

					Thinking Big by Peter Beinart Americans crave big victories in the war on terrorism. Democrats should give them one.

					Identity Politics by Martin Peretz Is France's secular, republican identity as fragile as it seems? web only
			· Howard Dean's religion problem · The newest Lord of the Rings fans · Is Dean rejecting Clinton's legacy?


Books I'm reading that may not be receiving due attention.	It was hard to find fault in the administration's Libya coup, but Kerry managed...	An article that definitively asserts that Dean is not a revolutionary socialist...	Paul Wolfowitz's response to the most troubling criticism of him raises questions...
11:00 a.m., 12.23.03	6:30 p.m., 12.23.03	12:40 p.m., 12.24.03	6:15 p.m., 12.23.03


	Poison Pills: For Democrats, this week's morning-after pill ruling was only the latest piece of bad political news. web only Unsettled: How Israeli hawks learned to love unilateral withdrawal. Debating Saddam's Trial: Anne-Marie Slaughter v. Ruth Wedgwood web only Willie or Won't He?: Is Dean building on the Clinton legacy or rejecting it? web only Fourth Way: Howard Dean's policy vision is highly Clintonian. So why won't he admit it? Loose Change: How Bush plays politics with the economy. Fear Factor: Motherhood replaces all your little neuroses with one big one. Work Related: Saddam's capture is a start. But the real way to win over Iraqis is with jobs. web only The National Interest: Europeans like multilateralism in theory; in practice, they're just as skeptical as Americans are. web only International Man of Mystery: What on earth does Dean mean by "internationalization"? web only Speech Impediment: Will Howard Dean's supporters prevent him from moving rightward on foreign policy? web only Double Edged: For Tony Blair, Saddam's capture creates as many problems as it solves. web only Exam Period: It's unclear if Saddam's capture helps or hurts Dean. What it does do is test him. web only More in Politics...				Culture Clashes: The Last Samurai benefits from all that Edward Zwick can do with a camera--but suffers from what he fails to do with a pen. Apocrypha: A poem by Judith Hall. The History of Laughter: James Wood on Momus by Leon Battista Alberti, translated by Sarah Knight; The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus, translated with an introduction and commentary by Clarence H. Miller. The Berliner: Prisoner of Paradise powerfully documents the life of a Jewish film-maker forced to direct for the Nazis. Films Worth Seeing: This week's picks from Stanley Kauffmann. (12.10.03) web only Tramps Like Who?: The image of Bruce Springsteen is one of the greatest inventions in the history of rock and roll. But what is the reality? Robert Coles's silly and dubious hagiography unwittingly tarnishes the icon. Shallow End?: Is the bachelorette on NBC's "Average Joe" superficial or just human? web only Impassioned Vision: Nan Goldin is, first and last, a connoisseur of epiphanies. web only Shakespeare in Bloom: Three new Shakespeare productions: are they anxiously influenced by Harold Bloom? At Sea: Master and Commander drenches its viewers in clichés and production values. Gravity: Wyatt Mason on Colson Whitehead's new book: "Such falseness is disappointing in a writer of talent." Hatchet Jobs: Why attacking something you hate is a way of defending something you love. More in Books & the Arts...

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