09 April 1999
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Cover story
Judge the US by deeds, not words
Can "humanitarian intervention" be justified, and how? Noam Chomskybelieves it depends on who's intervening and to what effect
Features
A party still in search of an ideology
Westminster
A Balkan version of the IRA?
Our politicians are treating the Kosovo Liberation Army as freedom fighters whose cause is just. That's only half the story, reports Eske Wright
Why teachers don't want to be careerists
Michael McMahonargues that professional competition has no place in schools
Will they dance to Trimble's tune?
Sinn Fein-IRA have been outflanked by the unionists they loathe. Now they must decide if they will take the peace process to its endgame
Cold turkey is no worse than flu
To kick an addiction, you just need will-power, argues Anthony Daniels. But the middle-class caring professions, who need victims, pretend otherwise
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - The myth of progress
Our faith in technology shows that we still believe in magic, argues John Gray
Culture
Elders and betters
We see far too little Caribbean painting in Britain. John Henshalldiscovers just what we've been missing
In the Can
Rock byRichard Cook
Tricks of memory
Music byDermot Clinch
La condition americaine
Film byJonathan Romney
Books
The emperor's new clothes. Salman Rushdie has written an alarming new kind of anti-literature, with banal obsessions and empty bombast, pseudo-characters and non-events
The Ground Beneath Her Feet Salman Rushdie Jonathan Cape, 448pp, £18
Thin-spun secrets
All Too Human: A Political Education George Stephanopoulos Hutchinson, 456pp, £17.99
Small Presses Special - Attic offices, skeleton staff
Over the next two weeks, NS critics will shine a spotlight on the output of small publishers, beginning with D J Taylor's celebration of a new generation of innovative independents
Small Presses Special - Rage of the Serbs
Rage of the Serbs Marjorie Radulovic The Book Guild, 530pp, £16.95
Small Presses Special - Go Gator and Muddy the Water
Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings from the Federal Writers Project Zora Neale Hurston, edited and with a biographical essay by Pamela Bordelon W W Norton, 199pp, £16.95 hardback/£9.95 paperback
Small Presses Special - British Think-Tanks and the Climate of Opinion
British Think-Tanks and the Climate of Opinion Andrew Denham and Mark Garnett UCL Press, 228pp, £38 hardback/232pp, £12.95 paperback
Novel of the week
Blue Light Walter Mosley Serpent's Tail, 304pp, £9.99
