 The time will come America,When the hordes of Afghanistan Will crash your gleaming airplanes Into the shiny towers of Manhattan. — From the 1924-1925 French publication La Révolution Surrealiste, translated by Wlad Godzich, dean of humanities at UC Santa Cruz. |
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| EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED The Slow Pace of Peace This movement is barely moving.BY TIM KINGSTON Dude, Where’s My Flag? East Bay residents justify their vehicular patriotism. BY JUSTIN BERTON The Resurgence of East Bay Islam How Is bin Laden Like Fred Flintstone? BY WILL HARPER Strokes and Stripes Forever BY STEFANIE KALEM The Morlocks Take an Early Lead BY WILL DURST Publish and Perish BY MICHAEL MECHANIC Left in a Rut BY HELENE BLATTER The Land of Milk and Kafka BY MELISSA HUNG |
NOTHING HAS CHANGED 9/11 — Get Over It Let’s face it — your life isn’t really that much different.BY CHRIS THOMPSON New! Improved! Your Country at War! Cashing in on human tragedy is an American tradition. BY MICHAEL MECHANIC Apocalypse? Nah. BY KELLY VANCE These Johnnys Ain’t Marching BY HELENE BLATTER Big Brother Goes to College BY KARA PLATONI |
Everything Has Changed, Nothing Has Changed
Did 9/11 alter the nation forever? Or has it just become an excuse to sell us banners, baubles, and George W. Bush? A collection of reportage and criticism.
