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

Tales of a traveller

Television

Books

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

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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