Several years ago, while I was a student
at Columbia University’s School of In-
ternational and Public Affairs, one of the hottest topics of debate was an article Harvard’s Samuel Huntington wrote in Foreign Affairs magazine titled “The...
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16 January 2002
How many people do you know who claim to be skeptical,
who pride themselves on their distrust for authority, who
like to pretend that they’re wise to the ways of the world — and then, every time there’s a war, they swallow the lies of...
16 January 2002
I arrived back from Colombia tired but very, very happy with
the trip. I have nothing but the highest praise for Witness for
Peace volunteers Jess and Julia who organized our delegation to travel and learn about the realities of life...
16 January 2002
The current political-economic crisis in Argentina, at first
glance, appears to be the resultant snafu of a corrupt
government that is itself the legacy of an even more corrupt government which itself arose from the ashes of a military...
16 January 2002
We are always telling people how the growing prison-
industrial complex (PIC) is all about making money off of prisoners, but we need to understand precisely how this is being done so that we can explain it to the general public and...
16 January 2002
Roughly 30 years ago prison activists
began to promote the concept of
“alternatives to prisons.” The alternatives they had in mind were halfway houses, probation, and other less punitive forms of supervision and rehabilitation. “...
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