ILF POST

By Mary Catherine Bateson Campaign rhetoric suggests that, while voters believe the policies of the Bush administration are not working, Democrats need to offer a specific “plan” for getting out of Iraq with some modicum of honor and responsibility and ending the constant loss of lives and billions of dollars. I want to suggest [...]

By Charles Lindblom My good friend Robert E. Lane has just published his erudite, brilliant, and enjoyable After The End of History. Among several themes is materialism, on which he joins countless critics of its excesses. He is persuasive. Precisely speaking, however, he joins most of his fellow critics in missing some junctions.
“Materialism”, as Lane [...]

By guest contributor Mike Males. Long a social activist in the civil rights movements, Mike Males is now a Senior Researcher at the Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice in San Francisco, and a faculty member in the sociology department at the University of California Santa Cruz. He is the author of [...]

By Ralph Keyes On Meet the Press recently, host Tim Russert asked a candidate for the Senate if she would vote to ban ‘partial-birth abortion.’ This illustrated how successful right-to-lifers have been in getting the press to adopt their terminology. Did I say right-to-lifers? I should have said those who oppose a [...]

By Gloria Feldt Part one of a small series in honor of the Oct. 16 anniversary of the first American birth control clinic, with the purpose of exploring why birth control is still at stake today and what we must do to secure the right and access to it:
I’m not much for [...]

By Mary Catherine Bateson Americans today are sharply divided and antagonistic about matters of religion. Suddenly the separation of Church and State seems to be under attack in a new way, and at the same time sectarian conflicts are increasing all over the world. Differences that could once largely be ignored have [...]

By Charles Lindblom Time reports that Mukesh Ambani, a private enterpriser of extraordinary accomplishments, intends to build–profitably–two new Indian cities, each for 5 million people. He probably knows what he is doing and may indeed succeed in so vast a plan. In contrast, many people are disposed to believe that, say, the U. S. [...]

By Harlan Cleveland We have already learned, in more than two centuries of history as a nation, a first lesson about diversity: It can’t be governed by drowning it in “integration.”

I came face to face with this truth when, a third of a century ago, I became president of the University of [...]