11 February 2002
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Cover story
Take cover: evil is back
George Bush talks of the axis of evil, and Tony Blair peppers his speeches with the word. But what is evil in a society of unbelievers?
Features
The hero they tried to muzzle
There's still life in the local press, fighting injustices and wrongdoings. But the papers' big conglomerate owners do their best to stamp it out
After Enron, the bonfire of the deal-makers
For 20 years, top managers have concentrated on taking over other companies. Perhaps they will now try to please customers again
Bells and broadband: my life at Enron
Bells and broadband: my life at Enron
War comes home
Andrew Stephenon how Hollywood made a film that is just right for the present American mood
Milosevic, prisoner of conscience
Neil Clark raises a lone voice for a man whose worst crime was to carry on being socialist
The lady has not lost all her marbles
Now that we have a statue of Margaret Thatcher, will Tony Blair model for one, too?
The Talibanising of Britain proceeds
"You're a Muslim, aren't you? That's India you have on your bag. You should get rid of it." Burhan Wazir meets a sect that wants a sharia state in this country
And not a drop to drink
Business is frustrated at the slow pace of privatisation in South Africa, but the poor, reports Bryan Rostron, are already feeling the effects
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Reflections on a war of ghosts
America, once more, is fighting in a country that it barely understands. Pankaj Mishra on a conflict where very little is as it seems
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Chris Haskins
The regulator's regulator, he is an insider who dares to criticise the government and its many "no-winners". Chris Haskins interviewed
Culture
The severed head
Does the truth matter in filming a real life story? By disregarding all the novelist's own words, Iris, the movie, is a travesty and an insult, arguesAnne Chisholm
Opriapric
Music - Peter Conrad enjoys a devilishly phallic performance of Don Giovanni
Film
Blow by blow
Film - Philip Kerr on how a biopic of the legendary boxer and black icon fails to pack a punch
Television
Made-up men
Television - Andrew Billen glimpses the not-so-private lives of Manchester's drag queens
Books
The ghost in the machine
Hidden Minds: A history of the unconscious Frank Tallis Profile Books, 194pp, £16.99 ISBN 186197311X
Shrink-wrapped
Madness: A Brief History Roy Porter Oxford University Press, 192pp, £11.99 ISBN 0192802666
An invention that changed the world
The Gutenberg Revolution John Man Review, 312pp, £14.99 ISBN 0747245045
Now for . . . hen lit
Having It and Eating It Sabine Durrant Warner, 320pp, £5.99 ISBN 075153191X
Novel of the week
The Fowler Family Business Jonathan Meades Fourth Estate, 212pp, £10 ISBN 1857028481
Right-thinking man. Nicholas Fearn on the late Robert Nozick, Ronald Reagan's favourite philosopher
Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World Robert Nozick Harvard University Press, 428pp, £23.95 ISBN 0674006313
Don't cry for me
The Real Odessa: How Peron brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina Uki Goni Granta, 384pp, £20 ISBN 1862074038
Disunited states
Chasing the Red, White and Blue David Cohen Picador USA, 312pp, £16.99 ISBN 0312261543
Paperback reader
Beneath Black Stars: contemporary Austrian fiction Ed. Martin Chalmers Serpent's Tail, 256pp, £9 ISBN 185242379X
