ILF POST

When President Bush started his second term at the beginning of 2005, and moved Condoleezza Rice to be Secretary of State, there was some puzzlement about what to do with John Bolton. As an Undersecretary of State, he had already gained much negative repute as a bull in a china shop.
The President was [...]

By Douglass Carmichael There exists a political program that 80% of the US population would vote for. It is an issue of a tone and approach more than specifics – though specifics count. People want realistic hope, pragmatism and some serious working to reverse negative trends. What we have been offered – by both [...]

By Charles Lindblom Congress wants sporadically to curb what it calls the left-wing broadcasts of National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting. And a loud chorus of uncertain origin complains endlessly about left-wing reporters. Perhaps, then, the media ought to complain about right-wing Congress and other rightist critics. Is the problem nothing more than that [...]

By Jane Alexander Those of us in the world of theatre are never very far from Henrik Ibsen who died one hundred years ago. He changed the way drama was conceived and left a legacy for all playwrights to come. He was the greatest playwright since Shakespeare and influenced many a writer even today.Ibsen incorporated [...]

By Mary Catherine Bateson Back in 1986, when I started work with my colleague Richard Goldsby on a book about dawning global awareness of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, we chose the title Thinking AIDS in order to emphasize the fact that the emergence of a new disease was a moment to stop and think about human [...]

By Charles Lindblom Yale University has been circulating an announcement of its many substantial but modest moves toward new international connections in both teaching and research. Other universities are moving in the same direction, some faster than Yale, some slower. The great universities, earlier mostly private, could not have become today’s powerhouses of teaching and [...]

By Harlan Cleveland It was about time — indeed, it’s long been time for the ‘United States’ to get back in effective touch with ‘Iran’. ‘A few days ago, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice skillfully moved the ‘United States’ off its posture of not talking with ‘Iran’, which has been a [...]

By Jane Alexander May 23rd, 2006 was the centennial of Henrik Ibsen’s death. Ibsen a hundred years ago was the greatest dramatist in the world. He influenced almost every playwright since and broke barriers in theatre that reverberate today; his plays are classics in that their meaning holds true today and for all time [...]