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SEP 20, 1991 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): An Assessment of Privatization in the U.K.: Mistakes, Successes, and Future Prospects

"No one should underestimate the extent to which political will, commitment, and singlemindedness was needed to implement the British privatization program."

JUN 28, 1991 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): Privatization in a Capital-Short World

"Mrs. Thatcher made absolutely certain that when privatization took place, no one could gain more than a small number of shares. Privatization was not for ...

MAY 15, 1991 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): The Political Economy of Privatization in Czechoslovakia

"No economic reform is intended in Czechoslovakia - but a total transformation of the economy."

MAY 12, 1991 Article

Morgenthau Lectures (1981–2006): Speaking Truth to Power: The Quest for Equality in Freedom

Former Council president Robert J. Myers discusses the legacy of Hans J. Morgenthau: his realist doctrine and its influence on American foreign policy; some enduring ...

APR 26, 1991 Article

Privatization Project (1991–1994): Labor's View of Privatization

"American labor is not opposed to privatization; we are for any economic system that works." THE PDF IS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD ON THE RIGHT SIDEBAR.

Cartoon featured in "Is the Cold War Over?" booklet

NOV 29, 1989 Article

Morgenthau Lectures (1981–2006): Is the Cold War Over?

Arthur Schlesinger analyzes the failure of the Soviet experiment, something no historian had predicted. "The internal contradictions of communism proved far more destructive than those ...

Fr. Ted Hesburgh in his office at the University of Notre Dame. PHOTO: <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr._Ted_Hesburgh_in_his_Office_at_the_University_of_Notre_Dame.JPG">commons.wikimedia.org</a>

MAY 12, 1988 Article

The Nuclear Dilemma: The Greatest Moral Problem of All Time

"We all know that we are the first generation of humans since Genesis that can totally destroy the human species and make our beautiful planet ...

MAY 22, 1987 Article

Morgenthau Lectures (1981–2006): The Political Ethics of International Relations

Leading international relations theorist Stanley Hoffmann argues that the greatest danger to ethical thinking in international affairs is "disembodied idealism," i.e., posing ethical solutions ...

Jacques Barzun in an undated publicity photo

MAY 26, 1986 Article

Morgenthau Lectures (1981–2006): Is Democratic Theory for Export?

Barzun argues that democracy is a historical development and mode of life peculiar to the political context in which it developed. Attempts to export it (...

MAY 12, 1985 Article

Morgenthau Lectures (1981–2006): Words and Deeds in Foreign Policy

Moral principles become disconnected from political actions in three ways: contextualizing ethics for time and place as well as man, politics, and the nation-state; subjugating ...