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… How do cold wars begin? The question is becoming more than academic as the Bush administration gropes … war with China. If so, Bush may be sympathetic. His “compassionate conservatism” reflects a strong commitment to the … cold war without carefully considering our choices. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the …

… 1965 to official independence in 1980.   Political factors complicated matters. Since the early 1960s, the British … were short-lived because the Rhodesian government could pass legislation that outlawed the formation of … There is no historical moment that Zimbabweans cherish more than the GNU era, which brought political …

… hundreds [of] thousands of people who will die.” Vasset’s comments encapsulated the international response to the … many humanitarian aid efforts continue to have the opposite of their intended effect. International Response At the … the Ethiopian Famine’s 25 th anniversary. While it pays lip service to the complicated situation that gave rise to the …

… candles, I will think about how many ways the story of the past can be told, and how each telling casts a different … Surely they know that nothing brings people together like a common enemy. But in the United States, the "rally round the … like lighting the candles, will surely not be easy. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the …

… back centuries. But my focus here will be on the recent past, that is, events since the breakup of the Soviet Union … This was a show in which Zelenskyy played a high school teacher who was unexpectedly elected President of Ukraine. And … a subset of the Russians, he's achieved the exact opposite. Because this has inspired a great deal of Ukrainian …

… to make bad choices when “stimulated by some irregular passion.” The best remedy would be “the interference of some … votes for president. But he looked like a backwoods ruffian compared with the venerable John Quincy Adams. So elite … must disappear, even if he is the vice president. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the …

… Arabic, European, and Persian architectural styles, the complex embodied purposefully Egypt's place at the … who sits now in a U.S. military prison, awaiting trial for passing along 251,287 such cables—only 2,000 of which are … Little was known of the man beyond the fact that he had visited a website associated with radical Islam—but his name …

… a battle fought here at home. The advocates of containing communism clearly defeated those led by General Douglas … years ago. It is not surprising that we remain stuck in the past. When the Korean armistice enshrined containment, it … solely with the two options of containment or conquest. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the …

… on “the near absence among the men I worked with… of any comprehension of what Nazism meant.” Commentator Dwight … be the crowning irony of his war and his presidency. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the … of Colorado at Boulder and a writer for History News Service. …

… fireworks light the sky and effigies burn. The celebration commemorates an event from 1605, when authorities discovered … and all of Parliament. But Bonfire Night’s endurance stems less from the historical event itself than from the English … Monteagle shared an anonymous letter with authorities, who passed it on to the King. Shortly after midnight on November …

… whether the United States should send troops to Europe and commit itself to acting in concert with NATO allies.  … "great" only when genuine alternatives cannot be heard. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the … of Colorado at Boulder and a writer for History News Service. …

… most critical elections in decades. European and American commentators almost uniformly expressed shock at the … in France’s otherwise democratic-republican recent past. In the years after World War II, the French government … II, could unleash a sobering and dangerous electoral shift. Cheryl A. Koos, an assistant professor of history at …

… other hand, speak piously of keeping politics out of sports competition. I am frequently asked, "Must politics be a part … vexed question of Tibet. Although the "Free Tibet" Internet site calls for full boycott, most other protestors seem … At one level, this marks a considerable retreat from past calls for boycotts. It may represent some recognition …

… French scholar Jean Bauberot. Bauberot sees three essential components to a secular society: 1) the separation of … 195 national constitutions from around the world, researchers found that over 70 of them declare some variation of … as when they do it from religious conviction,” wrote Blaise Pascal. That remains as true today as when Pascal wrote it …

… to fight on until the enemy is utterly vanquished has become our shared myth. But its appeal is as dangerous as it … though, we will see them as those mythic demons of the past. Then our policies will be responses to images of … on the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the …

… the 20th century, in times of peace, U.S. military researchers were busy inventing new weapons for the next war. The … and the virtual realm of computer technology. They have a passionate booster in Donald Rumsfeld. The Air Force’s Space … plan. They shout it out in glossy brochures and slick websites, hoping to get a bigger piece of the budgetary pie. …

… inventing new “nukes” and new ways to deliver them. He felt compelled to build almost all of them, lest the Russians get … now, before any of its costs have to be paid. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the … of Colorado at Boulder and a writer for History News Service. …

… nation must choose between alternative ways of life, “communist or free,” Truman declared. Truman shook off fears … deeply. It is LBJ’s ghost that is waiting in the wings. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the … of Colorado at Boulder and a writer for History News Service. …

… the economic crisis ripples through the world, some liberal commentators say that the only solution to it is a … are working at jobs that flood the world with goods and services, while they receive wages so low that they remain … "We all go up, or else we all go down, as one people." Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the …

… Together with you, our listeners will be exploring how the past informs the present this year.   Lauren Henry   That's … infectious diseases can be caused by bacteria, fungus, parasites and viruses and HIV, which stands for ”human … came to West Southern Africa to Angola as volunteers, teachers, development workers, but also as military, to support …

… so we're curious. Is this a continuation or departure from past disagreements or challenges in college sports history? … time that and I've mostly said this, you know, over a pitcher of beer, but that the extraordinary thing about college … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website …

… translated into action. In the 1950s, President Eisenhower committed the U.S. government to a first-strike nuclear … anything gained by a policy of “shock and awe.” Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the … of Colorado at Boulder and a writer for History News Service. …

… average citizens with no connection to crime have become victims of this policy —especially poor and young … to serve a fourth consecutive term, urban workers, schoolteachers, students, and even economic elites and young military … According to some estimates, postwar criminal violence surpassed the carnage of war.  The state blamed the rise in …

… As the world grapples with the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 , it is important … discovered since the mid-1960s (four of which just cause a common cold in humans). A microscopic image of SARS-CoV It … and disproportionately at risk of contracting SARS and passing it on to those outside hospitals—special precautions …