As a journal dealing primarily with critical theory, Telos doesnot, as a rule, become embroiled in current political issues.The following symposium was hastily organized for two reasons.First, the Kosovo crisis touches on many theoretical issueswhich have been the focus of the journal during the past fewyears. Second, we have been asked to support a manifesto opposingNATO intervention—a manifesto sponsored by some Frenchintellectuals whose work has appeared in the pages of the journaland many of whose positions we share. The opinions in the followingpages are meant to clarify why neither the...