A number of you have probably read many of Jonathan Schell's books, dating back to The Fate of the Earth, and most recently, The Unconquerable World.

Schell has just published in The Nation, what I believe is a very important essay, “The Empire Backfires,” perhaps the best summary assessment of the reactionary nature of the Bush Administration’s overall policies, quite apart from the distortions of truth which have been employed to implement them.