Fall 2004

• Salman Rushdie decries the Ministry of False Alarms • Art Spiegelman on witnessing the collapse of the WTC • Sarah P. Rubinstein remembers her brother, killed on 9/11 • Joseph Margulies on how he helped end detentions at Guantánamo • Jenny S. Martinez on defending “enemy combatant” José Padilla • Christopher Merrill on the role of literature post-9/11 • David Moats on why he favors allowing gay marriage • Francine Prose on the USA PATRIOT Act • Sanford Pinsker on American politics and the new populism • Jeffrey Meyers on T. E. Lawrence’s unlearned lessons in Iraq