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FEB 2, 2004 • Article
Desolation and Enlightenment--History or Memory?
The "desolation" of the 20th century--the total war of the two World Wars, the totalitarian regimes of both the right and left, and the Holocaust--has ...
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JAN 27, 2004 • Article
Multilateral Strategies to Promote Democracy
A panel of high-level peers meet at the Council to discuss multilateral strategies for democracy promotion. Impatient with the usual critique, they begin with two ...
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JAN 14, 2004 • Podcast
Backstory: Inside the Business of News
Auletta explores four of "the deadliest sins of journalism": synergy, the clash of business culture and news culture, hubris, and bias.
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JAN 1, 2004 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Stephen Jay Gould, "Rocks of Ages. --The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox"
It seems a good idea to distinguish science and religion as two separate, mutually non-interfering teaching authorities. Popular science writer Stephan Jay Gould (1941-2002) suggested ...
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JAN 1, 2004 • Article
Feature Articles from Inprint Newsletter (2001–2004): Promoting Democracy in a Divided World
Democracies survive if per capita GDP surpasses $6,000, but developing countries have little chance of crossing this threshold. To make democracy work in such contexts, ...
DEC 19, 2003 • Article
Feature Articles from Inprint Newsletter (2001–2004): Response to “Searching for a New Iraqi Identity”
Elizabeth Cole's editorial shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the aims of the Iraq Memory Foundation. While she is right in asserting that "deciding on the ...
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DEC 8, 2003 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: David Sloan Wilson, "Darwin's Cathedral"
Religion, I think most of us would say, isn't about much if it isn't about belief in a personal God... Religion is founded on the ...
DEC 3, 2003 • Article
The First Millennium Development Goal
The first MDG and its public celebration among the affluent hides the largest (though not the gravest) crime against humanity ever committed, argues Thomas Pogge ...