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Hard conversations about the Big Easy

by Paul Rogat Loeb

[ november 05 ]

People not pork barrel politics matter in the reconstruction of New Orleans.

Lead, kindly light

by Joe Palmer

[ november 05 ]

Whenever people submit to a powerful, centralized, bureaucratic, militarized authority, as in Saddam’s Iraq and the USA today, corruption and suffering must follow. All personal values become subordinate to the values of the rulers.

TV images don't bring change

by Robert Jensen

[ october 05 ]

"It is self-indulgence to ask whether an emotionally intense event such as the aftermath of Katrina will change US society."

Human rights, revisited

by Alvaro Vargas Llosa

[ october 05 ]

"With notable exceptions, the left and the right have tended to espouse a 'hemiplegic' notion of human rights..."

The Thin Wet Line

by Jonathan Penton and T S Ross

[ october 05 ]

A short history of border incidents.

Why do men chase women? (Because they are afraid of death)

by Joe Palmer

[ october 05 ]

"Being at war with ourselves over the fact of our own deaths is, in every case, a heroic endeavor."

Death in the 21st century

by Tom Vater

[ october 05 ]

The Stooges play Funhouse

911 in New Orleans

by Paul Rogat Loeb

[ september 05 ]

The development patterns that destroyed Louisiana wetlands are being repeated throughout America, with the support of an administration intent on removing all limits on private economic activity.

What is multicultural?

by John Welch

[ september 05 ]

"The teacher who once said to me 'I don't have any multiculturals in my class' didn't mean children brimming over with the spirit of multiculturalism; he simply meant the ones who weren't White."

Bombs away - religion and language in the USA

by Joe Palmer

[ september 05 ]

"Faith is the product of one mind. Religion, like a language or a kinship system, is something that happens when people live together for a long time."