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NOVEMBER 1982:  I’m out of breath. This past month I’ve passed both my written and oral exams and presented my prospectus. Now nothing stands in the way of my trip to Ireland except earning the…

I was born and raised in Bremen, a city in northwest Germany, in a I middle-class family. At age fifteen, I became interested in politics, joined a neo-orthodox communistic “cell group” at high school, and…

From primitive rocks and clubs to the present nuclear arsenals, the history of warfare is characterized by the dramatic increase in the number  of civilians killed in each war and by scale changes in our…

May a nation threaten what it may never do? May it possess what it may never use:  These questions, raised in the Catholic bishops’ pastoral letter, state concisely the ethical dilemma with which Christians in…

Nearly everyone talks about nuclear weapons and our nation’s nuclear policies and strategies. Yet very few of us understand even the most elementary vocabulary of the subject. Why should terms like “counterforce” and “countervalue,” “first…

The impact of the Spanish-American War on the people of the American West has been overshadowed by its profound effect upon the American nation as a world power. A little-known sidelight to the war is…

I was six. 
I wheeled Grandpa’s milk cans out 
to wait like patient soldiers for the cheese truck. 
I strutted in a new red and blue 
corduroy cowboy suit.