Recent Articles
JAN 1, 2004 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Stephen Jay Gould, "Rocks of Ages. --The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox"
It seems a good idea to distinguish science and religion as two separate, mutually non-interfering teaching authorities. Popular science writer Stephan Jay Gould (1941-2002) suggested ...
JAN 1, 2004 • Article
Feature Articles from Inprint Newsletter (2001–2004): Promoting Democracy in a Divided World
Democracies survive if per capita GDP surpasses $6,000, but developing countries have little chance of crossing this threshold. To make democracy work in such contexts, ...
DEC 19, 2003 • Article
Feature Articles from Inprint Newsletter (2001–2004): Response to “Searching for a New Iraqi Identity”
Elizabeth Cole's editorial shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the aims of the Iraq Memory Foundation. While she is right in asserting that "deciding on the ...
DEC 8, 2003 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: David Sloan Wilson, "Darwin's Cathedral"
Religion, I think most of us would say, isn't about much if it isn't about belief in a personal God... Religion is founded on the ...
DEC 3, 2003 • Article
The First Millennium Development Goal
The first MDG and its public celebration among the affluent hides the largest (though not the gravest) crime against humanity ever committed, argues Thomas Pogge ...
NOV 20, 2003 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 10 (Fall 2003): Violence Against Women: Online Exclusives: Unexpected New Alliances for Addressing Military Involvement and Sexual Exploitation
Jennifer Butler responds to Jane Margold.
NOV 19, 2003 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 10 (Fall 2003): Violence Against Women: Online Exclusives: Women, Violence, and the Reinvolvement of the U.S. Military in the Philippines
The Visiting Forces Agreement, allowing U.S. military personnel access in 22 ports and bases, marked a return to the abuses that women’s ...
NOV 5, 2003 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 10 (Fall 2003): Violence Against Women: Articles: Domestic Violence and HIV Infection in Uganda
According to Lisa W. Karanja, women’s activists have documented the linkage between domestic violence and women’s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS—and they hold ...
NOV 5, 2003 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 10 (Fall 2003): Violence Against Women: Articles: Battered Mothers vs. U.S. Family Courts
Carrie Cuthbert and her colleagues write that battered mothers facing a family court system that lacks accountability have found hope in the human rights framework. ...