Recent Articles
MAY 1, 1976 • Article
The Other China: Hunger Part I - The Three Red Flags of Death
Up to to 43 million people died in China's famine of 1959-61, but few knew about it until decades later. Yet the information was there. From 1965...
MAR 1, 1975 • Article
Environmental War
"Harnessing weather as a means of warfare would at one time have seemed unthinkable, a grotesque variation on chemical and biological warfare. But 'weather war' ...
JUL 15, 1974 • Article
Reinhold Niebuhr's Personal Reflections on Britain, 1920s-1940s
In this piece, unpublished during his lifetime, the great theologian Reinhold Niebuhr reminisces about significant British personalities he knew well, in particular Sir Stafford Cripps, ...
MAY 1, 1974 • Article
An Ambassador's Reflections on a Bloodbath
Everyone knows of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, when Hutus massacred Tutsis. But few have heard of the 1972 genocide in neighboring Burundi, when Tutsis slaughtered 80,000-210,000 ...
JAN 1, 1972 • Article
Languages of Murder: William Calley and Charles Manson
Peter Berger grapples with the most shocking U.S. crimes of the 1960s: the My Lai massacre and the Manson murders. While it would be ...
MAY 1, 1970 • Article
On the Moral Implications of Torture and Exemplary Assassination
First published in May 1970 during the Vietnam War, this WORLDVIEW magazine article is just as relevant today.
APR 30, 1970 • Article
A New Sense of Direction (1968)
Dr. King gave this speech just a few months before his assassination and it is his last thorough evaluation of the movement. Still sadly relevant, ...
APR 29, 1970 • Article
Mission to Hanoi, 1968
In February 1968, peace activist Father Daniel Berrigan and historian Howard Zinn flew to Hanoi to obtain the release of three American prisoners of war. Here ...
JAN 8, 1970 • Article
The Year that was 1963
"Nineteen sixty-three has proved a turbulent and a humbling year....The deaths of two men did most to remind us sharply of the kind of ...
JAN 7, 1970 • Article
Farewell Magic; Farewell Myth
This May 1961 editorial in Worldview magazine was in response to the disastrous Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba, which took place on April 17, 1961, just a ...