ISSUE DATE:  DECEMBER 2002; VOL. 305, NO. 1831

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Letters: With God on Our Side . . . Mark Carr, Richard Benert.
Notebook: Hail Caesar! . . . Lewis H. Lapham.
Harper's Index.

Readings.
The Course of Empire . . . David C. Hendrickson.
Do Not Waste Your Life Lightly . . . a manual for kamikaze pilots.
Memoria Ex Machina . . . Marshall Jon Fisher.
The Hewers . . . a poem by Les Murray.
Humans and Other Animals . . . dispatches from animal control.
Mary Swan.
And... Edward Burt ynsky, Racks traw Downes, Robert Longo, and a survey of bicycle sexuality.

Essay . . . THE CASE FOR LIBERALISM . . . George McGovern . . . A defense of the future against the past.
Dispatch . . . REMEMBER THE GULF . . . Anthony Swofford . . . Scenes from the last war with Iraq.
Annotation . . . THE ALMIGHTY HEDGE . . . Daniel Brook . . . Fundamentalist Islam meets capitalism halfway.
Criticism . . . WOODEN DOLLAR . . . Ben Metcalf . . . The undiscovered Sacajawea.
Memoir . . . MY FATHER WEIGHTLESS . . . Paul West . . . Reflections on the gravity of war.
Story . . . ALL THE TRIMMINGS . . . Mark Richard.
Reviews . . . NEW BOOKS . . . Eric Porter.
COMFORT CULT . . . Francine Prose . . . On the honest unloveliness of William Trevor's world.
AGAINST TYPE? . . . Arthur Krystal . . . What the writing machine has wrought.
Puzzle . . . Richard E. Maltby Jr.
Quiz . . . SEASON'S REASONS.

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