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DEC 12, 1981 Article

Morgenthau Lectures (1981–2006): Power and Morality in Global Transformation

Famed Indonesian intellectual Soedjatmoko says that the time has come for man to "develop the international legal infrastructure that will enable us to manage our ...

U.S.S.R. summary map, 1968. CREDIT: <a href=https://www.loc.gov/resource/g7000.ct002923/">Library of Congress</a>

JUL 1, 1981 Article

Russia's Nightmare Joke--and Daytime Reality

"What if, today, the last great empire on earth were nothing more than a fiction trying its best to convince both itself and others of ...

Carlos Fuentes by D. F. Bach

SEP 1, 1980 Article

Carlos Fuentes on Politics, Language, and Literature

Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's former ambassador to France and famed novelist, short story writer, and essayist, spent the 1979-80 academic year teaching at Princeton. In this ...

MAY 1, 1980 Article

Banned in South Africa: A Personal Account

David Russell was a courageous white South African Anglican priest. On October 19, 1977, the government cracked down on the press, organizations, and individuals who fought apartheid. ...

MAR 3, 1979 Article

Human Rights & Foreign Policy by Hans J. Morgenthau (1979)

In this lecture and symposium, a select group of people joined Hans Morgenthau in a discussion of issues that were central to his presentation: William ...

Sakya Monastery, Sakya, Tibet. CREDIT: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakya_Monastery#/media/File:Sakya_Monastery,_Sakya,_Tibet.jpg"> Moszczynski</a>

SEP 1, 1978 Article

When the Chinese Came to Tibet

In this compelling first-hand account, Dowa Norbu explains the Chinese strategies for taking over Tibet. These included co-opting the ruling class, presenting themselves as modernizers ...

Small boat with 162 Vietnamese refugees sinks just a few meters off the Malaysian coast. Most of the refugees were rescued. <br>CREDIT: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/hfpz2ae">UNHCR/ K.Gaugler</a> December 1978

MAY 1, 1978 Article

"Do Not Forget Us!"

Activist Bayard Rustin reports on meeting Indochinese refugees in Thai camps, who fled their countries in fear of their lives. He exhorts America to open ...

"No human being, whether in solitude or in mass assembled, should be entirely trusted."

JUL 30, 1977 Article

An Underpraised and Undervalued System

Novak invokes what he calls the creed of democratic capitalism: "(a) individual freedom and the methods of trial-and-error; (b) the innate selfishness and corruptibility of ...

Belfast, 2010. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/marcella_bona/7293708950/">Marcella</a> (<a hre="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">CC</a>)

DEC 1, 1976 Article

The Red Hand of Ulster

Patricia Moir spent the summer of 1975 living in a Protestant housing estate in Belfast, where she organized a recreation program for the children. Her account ...

February 1974. Expelled from Russia, The Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn is staying in the home of Heinrich Böll. CREDIT: Verhoeff, Bert / Anefo, via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn_1974b.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a>

JUN 1, 1976 Article

An Interview With Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Today this nuclear threat still hangs over both sides, but the West has chosen the wrong path of making concessions. Nuclear war is not even ...