For five months, the Ethiopian government has been tracking down citizens of Eritrean descent and expelling them by the thousands. This is a peaceful and mild version of ethnic cleansing, so far without the mass murder and rape characteristic of …
The Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and The Making of the Jewish State by Zeev Sternhell Princeton University Press, 1998, 464 pp., $29.95 The Jews, Heinrich Heine is supposed to have said, are like everyone else but more so. …
I first read about the Algebra Project in February 1993, in a New York Times Magazine article profiling Bob Moses, the legendary former field director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), who in the 1960s had courageously promoted black …
The congressional election is now mercifully over and the daily barrage of negative ads a dimming memory. But it should be remembered that in a rational political system there would have been much to discuss this year. In the summer …
Who Speaks for America? By Eric Alterman Cornell University Press, 1998, 224 pp., $25 Probably no important area of public policy presents such a daunting challenge to the theory and practice of democracy as foreign policy. Not only does foreign …
