Peace And Politics

In the Greek play “Lysistrata,” first acted in 411 BCE, Aristophanes’ character, Lysistrata, leads a group of women to refuse to have sex...

​ The June 29, 2023, Supreme Court decision inStudents for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, hearkens...

I hadn’t associated the three European Baltic nations—Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania—with nonviolent movements.  However, from 1986-1991,...

Anyone willing to make a 241-mile march in boiling heat under constant threat of government violence to protest a tax on salt is a tower...

When the Declaration of Independence said that all men were created equal, it meant white men who owned property. Women, even white...

Nonviolence is not for the weak. Nor are nonviolent movements doomed to failure. History taught in high schools, most undergraduate...

A small murder of crows is arguing loudly this morning. And the robins and the cardinals are weighing in: chu,chu,chu,chu,chu,chu,chu,chu...

One of the most ironic (and sad) statements from the Vietnam War was “It became necessary to destroy that village in order to save it.” ...

I am not surprised that the Ukraine-Russian War continues, bogged down in Bakhmut and a muddy Ukraine spring (https://www.nytimes.com/202...

Yale history professor Timothy Snyder, in a May 9, 2023 NY Times opinion piece (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/09/opinion/russia-war-ukr...

The war in Ukraine drags on. The US and China are bickering about what might have been a Chinese surveillance balloon blown off course,...

2023 looks to be a sad year in Israel. Our long time ally is slipping into an ultra-conservative religious, right wing mess, led by...

T October 29, 2022 David Ignatius, in his October 28, 2022 Washington Post column, argues that the United States should cautiously engage...

Mass shootings implicate both peace and politics. they shatter the pace of a location and they create political fodder both for opponents...

Where is Russia’s war ( excuse me, “special operation”) in Ukraine headed? For the past several weeks, Ukraine has been engaged in...

I am starting this web site in connection with the publication of my memoir, “A Wrinkle in the Long Gray Line.” The Long Gray Line refers...