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… Soviet counter-intelligence agency, for writing derogatory comments about Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in a private … Solzhenitsyn was arrested by SMERSH for writing derogatory comments about Stalin in a private letter. He portrayed one … experience. Political prisoners in Kengir, Kazakhstan , the site of a famous prisoner revolt. Solzhenitsyn portrayed …

… basin, where it passed like many others. Yet thousands of miles away in Berlin, the  General Act of the Berlin … Conference on West Africa was signed.  The conference has become known for “carving up  the African continent ” for the … owned by the Belgian king.  With ambitions that far outmeasured his small kingdom, he had his sights set on lifting …

… Barry Goldwater of 1964. Dean should have taken the comparison seriously. Glaring parallels exist between the … His “straight-shooting” articulation of conservative principles enabled him to assume the leadership of a burgeoning … election, few believed that Goldwater could successfully compete for, much less win, the Republican nomination, but …

… have focused on the men vying for the throne and the battles fought to that end, there has been a recent spate of … behind-the-scenes may have been as important to the outcome of events as the men’s on the battlefield. In Blood … participated in all the old popular practices and would surely have been horrified by any suggestion that the …

… We live in the Diaspora and want only to immigrate [to Palestine] and gain possession of [ lirkosh ] from them." 1 … this new generation of Israeli scholars. This controversy – combined with his scholarship, popular writings, and … detailed rendering of the military and diplomatic events surrounding the Israeli War of Independence. Although the …

… expands our list of enemies and defines any potential competitor as a mortal threat. The national insecurity state … end.” Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld agreed that we “surely will not” eliminate terrorism. Using the same term as … The fears of the Bush era come from just the opposite belief: that we must never have any competitor, that …

… President Obama went to Egypt ten days ago to create common ground between America and Islam. In the process he …

… United States. Sometimes, in fact, we try to hide our hand completely. For example, the administration frankly says it … Hussein. Such proxy wars feature prominently in our endless campaign against Saddam, but they didn’t begin with … to him. In 1961 he approved uneasily, stipulating no U.S. combat involvement. The Cuban exiles were convinced that the …

… that lingered into the 1980s, the Republicans appeared hopelessly divided. Internecine warfare threatened to tear the … They have shown no inclination toward the kind of compromise that characterized President Reagan on issues … Reagan was the central figure in a conservative insurgency, but he knew that he could not destroy his party in …

… recede. In their place emerged a fierce brand of political combat that regarded private life as a legitimate field of … and Woodrow Wilson  escaped from the sort of humiliation visited on Grover Cleveland. Neither did insiders remark … saviors of civilization reflect attempts to resurrect the politics of insulation. We should resist such …

… he stood on the shoulders of giants, so perhaps he’d welcome the gift.   Newton is famous for Principia Mathematica … theory forward, the nickname gives it too much credit. Newton, too, aimed to keep God out of his … on God’s place in his natural philosophy, in order to refute those who had accused him of disbelief by omitting God …

… the course of Christianity and western civilization. Commemorative Playmobil figure of Martin Luther. But to stop … in a growing personal struggle with his own sense of the futility of a system of confession and penance that, he … Maximilian, was increasingly distracted by attempting to ensure—partly through bribery—that his grandson, who had just …

… victory, President Clinton should learn from the examples of two leaders he much admires, President John Kennedy … and relying on military superiority and instead find common ground with its adversaries. In October 1962 Kennedy … We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.” Kennedy’s speech was …

… as a missionary people, uniquely called to bring the blessings of liberty to the oppressed. As publisher Henry … of the nation at its finest hour. It wraps us in reassuring nostalgia. For many of us, the drive into Baghdad is … of Guatemala’s Jacobo Arbenz dared to undertake a comprehensive land reform campaign, nationalize corporate …

… ignored the bicentennial of the War itself, and will not commemorate its end either, and it is worth asking why. The … the War of 1812 is incongruent with the collective mythos surrounding the nation’s founding in 1776, which goes a long … way that slavery upsets the notion that American principles were perfectly sound from the outset, remembering the …

… of many modern-day legal rights and constitutional principles. By June 1215, England was in civil war as disaffected … the papacy  that led to an interdict (ecclesiastical censure) in England and to his own excommunication, the troubling loss of his French possessions, …

… which plan to test the next generation of bombs on computers rather than under the ground. But who’s paying … weapons is figuring out where to use them and making sure they hit their intended targets. Advocates of military … plan. They shout it out in glossy brochures and slick websites, hoping to get a bigger piece of the budgetary pie. …

… programs. These recent developments no doubt bring comfort to some. But we can't rest easy. The dangers of … that we have might be wasted in a ruinous and manifestly absurd nuclear armaments race." Bold action had to be taken to … program. Should Iran ever possess nuclear weapons, the future government of Iraq may be tempted to do so as well. …

… To make the case that an election is momentous, you need to compare it with previous critical ones. The most important … lasted until 1968, when a disastrous, unnecessary war discredited the party.   The 1968 turning point was somewhat …   As for which previous election this year’s most resembles, several candidates have been nominated. The two …

… and now rests in Sen. Joe Lieberman's Homeland Security Committee. Swift Senate passage appears certain. Not since … will face a native brand of terrorism in the immediate future and offers a plan to deal with ideologically based … to expose native terrorism. Harman's proposal includes an absurd attack on the Internet, criticizing it for providing …

… or accept “instructions on public policy” from any “ecclesiastical source,” and that no religious entity should … the public acts of its officials.”   Kennedy affirmed his commitment to an America that is “officially neither … ‘Almighty God’” and proclaimed that “the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand …

… hailed the loss of one of the brightest minds and most tireless spirits that had animated the nonconformist left. Historian Leilah Danielson attempts to complete the work that Muste did not. It is most useful to … Muste – labor had shackled itself to racist capitalism and surrendered to militaristic nationalism. By 1936, Muste left …

… changed the character of the war; now the soldiers he commanded fought not only for union, but for freedom—in some … challenge of the courts influenced his dogged efforts to ensure the passage, in 1865, of the 13 th Amendment abolishing … Harper’s Weekly illustration of the slaves’ “past” and “future.”) The 14 th and 15 th Amendments of 1868 and 1870 …