Explore & Engage

Framing ethical perspectives and engaging with a global audience

Latest Podcasts, Videos, & Articles

U.S. Huey helicopter spraying Agent Orange over Vietnam. CREDIT: U.S. Army via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US-Huey-helicopter-spraying-Agent-Orange-in-Vietnam.jpg">Wikipedia</a> (Public domain)

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' ...

Tottenham Court Road, London, 1927. Via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tottenham_Court_road_in_London_1927.jpg">Wikimedia</a>

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In this piece, unpublished during his lifetime, the great theologian Reinhold Niebuhr reminisces about significant British personalities he knew well, in particular Sir Stafford Cripps,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 ...

Book covers

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 ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-140748628/stock-photo-vietnam-war-style-image-of-two-helicopters-flying-low-over-the-jungle-canopy-at-sunset-time.html?src=eqQ0lPosGSAB2mOKWHD-FQ-1-1">Shutterstock</a>.

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.