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DEC 6, 2002 Article

Legitimizing the Use of Force in Kosovo

Kosovo was not the first military campaign termed a "humanitarian intervention." But it did rekindle debate on whether and when a state or group of ...

Science, Truth, and Democracy

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 ...

Reverence

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 ...