[At Issue]
The poetry of Wislawa Szymborska
Selected and introduced by Edward Hirsch
It was not inevitable that the chair would become the world's most widely used tool for sitting.
Jazz has never been more respectable. But did it lose its vitality when it moved uptown?
Buddhism has existed for more than 2,500 years. Perhaps no other religion has spread more widely around the globe, or been more misunderstood.
At the close of the 20th century, a new global information economy is being born, and knowledge is its coin of the realm. Nations now measure their wealth in software codes and chemical formulas rather than gold and silver. Knowledge-based industries such as software, computers, and pharmaceuticals generate half the output of the world’s richer countries. Swarming around them, our authors warn, is a whole new breed of postindustrial spies and pirates, poised to strip an unwitting America of some of its most precious assets.
Lacking natural boundaries, Europe has, at times, seemed more concept than reality. European union may be equally elusive.
Slender threads of brownish smoke rose from a forest of chimneys and twisted upward into the winter mist. Collectively they wove a dark cloak that shrouded Edinburgh as a well-appointed carriage bearing an American family appeared in the gloom.
Intellectual property, once a subject with all the sizzle of tort law reform, has suddenly become a major issue in U.S. foreign policy. Conflicts over patents and copyright protection are now a powerful irritant in America’s relationships with several foreign powers.