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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In this piece, unpublished during his lifetime, the great theologian Reinhold Niebuhr reminisces about significant British personalities he knew well, in particular Sir Stafford Cripps,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 ...
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 ...
JAN 7, 1970 • Article
America's Minority Problems
In 1960, the editors of WORLDVIEW Magazine argued that the freedom and democracy that United States leaders were espousing abroad during the Cold War were not ...
JAN 6, 1970 • Article
The Problem of Race
1959 may not seem like a landmark year for the Civil Rights movement. It is sandwiched between the 1957 desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, ...
JAN 5, 1970 • Article
"In Your Hands: A Guide for Community Action"
"America's advances depend on every citizen. From now until the Declaration's tenth anniversary on December 10, 1958, you will want to study and discuss the Declaration, examine ...