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JAN 21, 2016 • Article
Rising Fences: Migrants, Borders, and a New Frontier for Ethics
What will 2015 be remembered for? The image that comes to mind is “rising fences.” If we took a satellite photo of the planet, that would ...
SEP 13, 2015 • Article
Democracy as Myth and Fact
Myths give meaning to our lives. They are stories created to explain the human condition—creation, death, heroism, dignity, pain, pride, and suffering. There is ...
AUG 21, 2015 • Article
Compromise and Rotten Compromises: A Reflection on the Iran Deal
Let’s give President Obama the benefit of the doubt. As the president has repeatedly asserted, the agreement insures that every pathway to a nuclear ...
JUL 31, 2014 • Article
Carnegie’s Vision for Peace: WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Interviews Joel Rosenthal
Transcript of an interview on The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC. “A little over 100 years ago, in February of 1914, the industrialist Andrew Carnegie started an organization ...
JUN 26, 2014 • Article
We Have a Plan: From Sarajevo to Baghdad
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA, AND HERZEGOVINA – How should we mark the 100th anniversary of the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, the ...