Recent Articles
DEC 2, 2002 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Philip Kitcher, "Science, Truth, and Democracy"
Kitcher cuts a clear path between those who worship science as a religion and those who fashionably insist that science is merely a set of ...
NOV 18, 2002 • Article
Monitoring Global Poverty: Better Options for the Future
How many poor people are there in the world? Are their numbers increasing or decreasing? Professor Sanjay Reddy argues that the answers ...
NOV 13, 2002 • Article
Civilians and War: Dilemmas in Law and Morality
Rules for distinguishing between civilians and soldiers during armed conflict have been around since the medieval period, but the debate surrounding recent civilian deaths in ...
NOV 1, 2002 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Paul Woodruff, "Reverence"
Woodruff doesn't lament the absence of reverence in our life; he asks us to discover it where it already is. We could not live ...
OCT 20, 2002 • Article
Threats Beyond the Headlines
"One unintended danger of our hedgehog-like focus on the war against terrorism is that it squeezes the public space available to air other issues, increasing [...
OCT 15, 2002 • Article
Held to Account: Governance in the World Economy
How can multilateral economic institutions tackle the crisis of effectiveness and the crisis of legitimacy they face today? (Report on ...
OCT 11, 2002 • Article
The Catholic Church and American Foreign Policy
This 2002 workshop focuses on the role of Catholicism in U.S. foreign policy. By examining how the American Catholic church has evolved in the United ...
OCT 1, 2002 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Mark Lilla, "The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics"
"Lilla's book summarizes the thought of some of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, some of whom are well known but others of ...
SEP 19, 2002 • Article
Judaism: Power and Interpretation
How has the Jewish religion tradition addressed violence and war? (Report on a 09/19/02 Carnegie-Georgetown Forum)
SEP 2, 2002 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Thomas Cahill, "Pope John XXIII"
Cahill tells two stories, the story of the papacy and the story of John XXIII. The first gives context to the second. And that context--the ...