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TABLE OF CONTENTS
 May 2004
 
ARTICLES
The Oil-for-Food Scam: What Did Kofi Annan Know, and When Did He Know It?  by Claudia Rosett
Charged with bringing relief to the people of Iraq, the United Nations instead bolstered Saddam's tyranny and thoroughly corrupted itself.
Jews, Christians, and "The Passion"  by David Berger
Mel Gibson's movie has sharpened old divisions, created new ones, and endangered decades of effort to build good will.
The Richard Clarke Show  by Joshua Muravchik  
To enliven the political season, a best-selling book accuses George W. Bush of being soft on terrorism.
What Kind of Religion Is Islam?  by Alain Besançon  
Despite wishful thinking by ecumenicist outsiders, the third "religion of the Book" is utterly unlike Christianity and Judaism.
Jihad in Jakarta  by Joshua Kurlantzick  
Even in relatively tolerant Indonesia, the radicals are making steady and worrisome progress.
ART
Milton Avery's Art, and Ours  by Steven C. Munson  
An exhibit by a 20th-century American master reflects a very different impulse from today's need to irritate.
MUSIC
Composers for Communism  by Terry Teachout
The careers of Aaron Copland and Dmitri Shostakovich intersect both musically and in relation to a third man: Joseph Stalin.
BOOKS IN REVIEW
Who Are We? by Samuel P. Huntington  reviewed by James Nuechterlein
A Secret Life by Benjamin Weiser  reviewed by Richard Pipes
The Way to Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa  reviewed by Roger Kaplan
The Working Poor by David K. Shipler  reviewed by Leslie Lenkowsky
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience by John Lewis Gaddis  reviewed by Max Boot
LETTERS FROM READERS
North Korea; Bush's conservatism; watching the UN 

 
 
FROM THE ARCHIVE
 

Re: the United Nations

"Joining the Jackals": The U.S. at the UN 1977-1980
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick (February 1981)
The UN and the Jews
Bayefsky, Anne (February 2004)
The UN on the Loose
Muravchik, Joshua (July 2002)
The Wages of Durban
Puddington, Arch (November 2001)
Threats to U.S. Sovereignty
Rabkin, Jeremy (March 1994)
How to Rescue International Law
Gottlieb, Gidon (October 1984)
What Can the UN Do?
Steel, Ronald (May 1967)
The New United Nations
Morgenthau, Hans J. (November 1958)
United Nations: Cultural Division
Spender, Stephen (April 1947)

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