JUL 30, 1977 • Article
An Underpraised and Undervalued System
Novak invokes what he calls the creed of democratic capitalism: "(a) individual freedom and the methods of trial-and-error; (b) the innate selfishness and corruptibility of ...
DEC 1, 1976 • Article
The Red Hand of Ulster
Patricia Moir spent the summer of 1975 living in a Protestant housing estate in Belfast, where she organized a recreation program for the children. Her account ...
JUN 1, 1976 • Article
An Interview With Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Today this nuclear threat still hangs over both sides, but the West has chosen the wrong path of making concessions. Nuclear war is not even ...
MAY 1, 1976 • Article
The Other China: Hunger Part I - The Three Red Flags of Death
Up to to 43 million people died in China's famine of 1959-61, but few knew about it until decades later. Yet the information was there. From 1965...
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In this piece, unpublished during his lifetime, the great theologian Reinhold Niebuhr reminisces about significant British personalities he knew well, in particular Sir Stafford Cripps,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 ...