Black Hawk Down

  • Right Hook

    As violence erupts across Iraq, conservatives wonder if Iraqis are expressing their "natural" barbarity, whether AP conspired with killers to publicize grisly Fallujah photos, and if the U.S. shouldn't simply "nuke the Sunni Triangle."
  • Sanitized for our protection

    The rest of the world is shown far more graphic war images than the U.S. media allows. Is the American public being insulated from the true horrors of the battlefield?
  • Weapons of mass distraction

    A new breed of computer games is teaching today's teenagers how to wage, and win, the war against terror.
  • Did "Black Hawk Down" sell out?

    Actor Brendan Sexton III challenges Ridley Scott, Mark Bowden and the entire U.S. military from a little cafe in Brooklyn.
  • "A Beautiful Mind," "Black Hawk Down"

    Readers respond to our critics.
  • Fog of war

    "Black Hawk Down's" gripping images of the U.S. military's missteps in Somalia grope about in a context-free void.
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    Ten titles that kept us up all night in 1999
  • Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

    Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
  • Cryptonomicon

    Cryptonomicon

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