The reality of Venezuela under the rule of Hugo Chávez Frias, Gregory Wilpert tells us, is a “complicated truth” (“Venezuela’s Other Path,” Spring 2005). Whereas many observers see in Chávez another Fidel Castro, an authoritarian caudillo pushing his nation toward …
Local justice in Rwanda
The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton Vintage, 2005, 336 pp., $15.00 The Nazi Conscience by Claudia Koonz Harvard University Press, 2003, 362 pp., $29.95 Ever since William Wordsworth celebrated revolution as a gift of youth and Edmund Burke …
New Approaches to ‘Politicized’ Science Under the Bush Administration
Joanne Barkan asks whether globalization is turning Europe into a museum
The War in Iraq and Dissent
If poetry, as Wordsworth wrote, “takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility,” political thought should take its origin from contention and anger similarly recollected. I suspect that tranquility is in short supply among our writers, but still, we try …
If only working-class and poor people would register and vote, liberal Democrats would win every election-that’s what we thought, until November 2, 2004. Democrats work on voter registration, Republicans work on vote suppression. So tens of millions were spent on …
In the fall of 2002, the American Political Science Association appointed a Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy. The fifteen members of the task force are Lawrence Jacobs, chair (University of Minnesota), Ben Barber (University of Maryland), Larry Bartels …
Roméo Dallaire’s Shake Hands with the Devil and Keir Pearson and Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda
The Dirty Little Secret of Financial Globalization
It is difficult for casual outside observers to make sense of Venezuela. Most people who rely on mainstream media for their information will get contradictory accounts of the government of Hugo Chavez, its policies, and its confrontations with the opposition. …
Nicholaus Mills looks at the first battle for Social Security
“[P]assions without truth, truths without passion; heroes without heroic deeds, history without events; development, whose sole driving force seems to be the calendar, wearying with constant repetition of the same tensions and relaxations; antagonisms that periodically seem to work themselves …
Too Much Logic, Too Little Evidence
