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Post-National Voices

Post-National Writing

Literature Can Close the Fear Gap SALMAN RUSHDIE
Fiction: Open Space in a Closed Society AZAR NAFISI
War and Writing HANAN AL-SHAYKH
Linguistic Cleansing ELIF SHAFAK
The Truth in Fiction TOMAS ELOY MARTINEZ
Frail Voices, Not Great Laws GAO XINGJIAN
Novels Are as Important as Nukes HA JIN
Postmodernism and Pastry LILLIAN FASCHINGER

Pope Benedict and the Dictatorship of Relativism

Ratzinger Is Right RENE GIRARD
What Would the Buddha Think? PANKAJ MISHRA

As The World Turns

Japan vs. China: Asia's New Cold War SHINTARO ISHIHARA
The Sino-American Game of Financial Chicken HOWARD M. WACHTEL
US Is the Main Culprit in NPT Failure JIMMY CARTER
A Helsinki Accord for the Arab World SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM
Minimal Islam Is the Answer for Iran MOHSEN SAZEGARA
Tapping Mexico's Potential JOSE ALBERRO, JORGE CASTENADA, NATHAN GARDELS

Frontiers of the New Century

Ethically, Embryo Cloning Is Like Organ Transplants IAN WILMUT

Just Think...

On the Rise and Fall of American Soft Power JOSEPH S. NYE