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Many of the great political writers -- Nadine Gordimer, say, or Graham Greene -- catch revolution on the human scale by showing how the affairs of state impinge on even the most private of individuals. And many a writer of compassion, from Chekhov to Arthur Miller and beyond, has described how one...
"The adolescent I had been peeked out at me from behind the birches and glared from the shadows of the darkened room. I had left her alone in New Hampshire, hoping to forget her. Instead, she had called me back. She demanded compassion, forgiveness, reunification. When I finished my year...
There's nothing subtle about war, though some think of it as a form of diplomacy. It produces only extremes: winners and losers. When it ends, sweet victory's trumpeters sound off on TV and rush into print to praise the winners and tell how they did it. The losers...
Shocked, because Townsend's allegations were completely false and totally misrepresented Hillel's actions of the past week, as anyone who followed the story of the flags ought to know. Saddened, because Townsend's example of morality and compassion is diluted by a bitterness, the source of which I do...
Foreign policy is an exercise in discrimination. Our resources, like our stores of compassion, are finite. We take up arms against those troubles that are both particularly evil and particularly threatening to us. And we husband our resources to meet those troubles. That will occasionally mean having to * recruit others...