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American Destiny Safe for the rest of the world? WILLIAM PFAFF Contrary to what usually is claimed in Washington, American foreign policy has rarely been directed...

No Longer Docile (April 2015)

COLUMNISTS William Pfaff No Longer Docile EUROPE SOURS ON U.S. FOREIGN POLICY Britain, Germany, and France are all posting signs of dissent in the West. Last week Barack Obama's White House...

Trying My Hand (October 2014)

SHORT TAKES William Pfaff Trying My Hand HOW I GOT STARTED IN JOURNALISM After I graduated from Notre Dame in 1949, I faced the problem of what to do to make a living. All my college friends...

The Paradox of Proliferation (June 2013)

SHORT TAKES William Pfaff The Paradox of Proliferation WHY NUKES ARE OF NO REAL USE TO NORTH KOREA No one was surprised when North Korea’s new supreme leader threatened to use nuclear weapons...

This Time is No Different (May 2013)

COLUMNIST William Pfaff This Time Is No Different HALF-BAKED THEORIES CONTINUE TO DIRECT GLOBAL HISTORY The blood runs cold when one fully appreciates how vulnerable Western policymakers are to...

The Paranoid Pentagon (July 2012)

William Pfaff The Paranoid Pentagon DOES THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WANT PEACE? The disclosure that current U.S. drone warfare operations are directed from the presidential office in the White House,...

Greece Trap (March 2012)

William Pfaff Greece Trap THE UNDEMOCRATIC POLITICS OF AUSTERITY When the first international effort to impose an economic austerity regime on Greece was completed, George Papandreou, then...

The 1-percent Problem (December 2011)

William Pfaff The 1-percent Problem HOW AMERICANS CAN SAVE THEMSELVES FROM PLUTOCRACY The theme of most political and social commentary is that things are more complicated than you think. For...

Lost Appetite (March 2011)

COLUMNISTS William Pfaff Lost Appetite HAS AMERICA GIVEN UP ON LAND WARS? The 2011 meeting of the Institute for Mediterranean Political Studies serendipitously coincided with the Arab...

The Buck Starts Here (December 2009)

Columnists William Pfaff The Buck Starts Here PAYBACK TIME FOR THE ‘MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE’ It seems plausible that payback time has arrived for the international financial...

The Enemies Within (July 2009)

William Pfaff The Enemies Within IS IRAN DUE FOR ANOTHER REVOLUTION? The truly significant result of the suppressed Iranian revolt is that the most important Islamist radical movement in...

We Surrender (June 2009)

Columnist William Pfaff We Surrender LESSONS FROM FRANCE'S ECONOMIC SUCCESS Many in Britain and the United States are in mourning for what's taken as the suicide of the American (or...

Consumed by Zeal (April 2009)

One might have thought that the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States had for the moment offered the chance of a settlement of the country's great issues. Far from it....

No one Guilty? (December 2008)

Commonweal . December 5, 2008 No One Guilty? its highly lucrative gsubprimeh mort- William Pfaff AccounTAbiLiTy & THe finAnciAL criSiS During a weekend discussion of flows through the...

Broken Promise (November 2008)

Commonweal . November 7, 2008 Broken Promise think that the Russians are now about Middle East. They can sit back and ob- Nations are what history has made serve Muslim fighters do to the...

The Fall (October 2008)

William Pfaff The Fall oRIGINAL sIN & fRee-MARkeT cAPITALIsM Karl Marx, were he still about, would surely be interested in the report that unregulated free-market...

General Malfeasance (August 2008)

Commonweal . August 15, 2008 General Malfeasance William Pfaff WiLL Gm beTRAy iTS WoRkeRS? According to a new book, and ness had not been allowed the freedom an old theory, the reason to...

It Ain't Over (May 2008)

Columnist William Pfaff It Ain’t Over PLAnnInG fOR PeRPeTuAL WAR The Associated Press reports that the Pentagon has pre pared a $5 billion commer cial development...

Olympian Hurdles (April 2008)

William Pfaff Olympian Hurdles CHinA, THE ToRCH & TiBET The International Olympic Committee’s decision to grant China the right to organize the 2008 summer games was another...

Shell Game (April 2008)

William Pfaff Shell Game ThE SUbPRIME MORTGAGE SWINDLE Commonweal. April 11, 2008 The international reaction to the present credit crisis, the most serious since 1929, re veals a...

Setting a Trap (October 2007)

Commonweal . October 12, 2007 8 Setting a Trap William Pfaff IRAN¡¯S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD WANTS A U.S. ATTACK The degree of alarm and war propaganda generated in the United States and...

Unintended Consequences (June 2007)

William Pfaff Unintended Consequences THE DANGER OF A GLOBALIZED ECONOMY A truth only now, and reluctantly, acknowledged in the , ]} international economic de37"i bate is that...

When Fear Rules (June 2007)

William Pfaff When Fear Rules P~ WHY THE UNITED STATES WON'T LEAVE IRAQ The Iraq war has caused a deep shift in American thinking and popular fears, and has produced structural and...

Making Babies (February 2007)

t",l zr ! William Pfaff Making Babies HOW THE FRENCH DO IT Thirty years ago, the government of Valdry Giscard d'Estaing urged the French to have "un troisi~me enfant pour la France,"...

Double Standards (November 2006)

Willia m Pfaff Double Standards WHY NORTH KOREA GOT THE The government most destabilized by North Korea's nuclear explosion last month was clearly the government of the United States....

No Exit? (August 2006)

a punishment for our sins, or a test of faith, or any of the stupid things Job's comforters said it is. This great mystery at the center of our existence is not only not really addressed by...

Clash of Cultures: The West & the rest (June 2006)

Clash of Cultures Globalization & the March of Western Values William Pfaff In the riots that swept Islamic society last winter, reaction to the publication of cartoons insulting the Prophet...

The Globalized Economy (May 2006)

Willia m Pfaff The Globalized Economy WHO WINS & WHO LOSES A specter is haunting Europe the specter of AngloAmerican market capitalism. This threat dominated the French student unrest in...

The Nuclear Option (September 2005)

g 2 r 2 t~ William Pfaff The Nuclear Option WHY NATIONS WANT THE BOMB The background to the controversy over Iran's nuclear program is an American position on nuclear...

Escape from Iraq (June 2005)

William Pfaff Escape from Iraq HOW LONG CAN THE OCCUPATION LAST? The Bush administration's acute anxiety about Iraq was demonstrated by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's recent visit to...

Being & Doing (April 2005)

~q Ca that the line between good and evil runs through every human heart, and it is essential for us to keep this before us every time we use the word. Last month's tragedy on the Red...

Exporting Democracy (March 2005)

,.g William Pfaff Exporting Democracy IMPERIALISM BY ANOTHER NAME? Because the United States was founded on Enlightenment ideas, and nationalism is usually connected to romantic notions of...

Torturing prisoners (September 2004)

:FAAi''A'. 1ti iMItSiR'a:!'.e.ralW:: ;:Ti ISilt aMil .-iB M M49:54tSXas 9SsitilK I.60' WILLIAM PFAFF TORTURING NE Setting the tone at the top he United States has suffered several defeats in the...

Torturing prisoners (May 2004)

tkN'F.Kirk'MN,'Zi.yW',SIi S-Ph1h Tai:FIStrWAG;Kd41:4A:y,!'K ti Sht}eililit' u'it3d',at..Y,TAtUi OF SEVERAL PIINDS WILLIAM PFAFF TORTURING PRISONERS Who is responsible for Abu Ghraib? question has...

Good cop, bad cop (April 2004)

O L S E V E R A L It H D WILLIAM PFAFF GOOD COP' BAD COP Two approaches to terrorism .a,,, :l. he dramatic events of the past month in Spain and Iraq show the difference between two...

Little Sir Echo (June 2003)

WILLIAM PFAFF LITTLE SIR ECHO U.S. lies & Tony Blair's dilemma From the start, it has been hard to understand British Prime Minister Tony Blair's conduct concerning the war on Iraq. Clearly, he...

'Terrorism' (May 2003)

WILLIAM PFAFF "TERRORISM" Bush II redefines the term Foreign ministers of the G-8 leading industrial nations met in Paris in early May to affirm that terrorism remains a "pervasive and global...

Bush's triumph (April 2003)

WILLIAM PFAFF BUSH'S TRIUMPH It may not last long Statements by both President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell in early April made it clear that the United States does not...

Occupy Iraq? (March 2003)

WILLIAM PFAFF OCCUPY IRAQ? Remember Germany & Japan There is "but one response possible for us: Force, force to the utmost, force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant force which...

Why can't they be like us? Islam & the West (January 2003)

OF SEVERAL MINDS WILLIAM PFAFF WHY CAN'T THEY BE LIKE US? The West & Muslims in the months following the September 2001 terrorist attacks, it was politically taboo to say that the United States...

AMERICAN DESTINY Can the world survive U S foreign policy? (May 2002)

AMERICAN DESTINY Safe for the rest of the world? William Pfaff Contrary to what usually is claimed in Washington, American foreign policy has rarely been directed by calculations of national...

Does Europe matter? (January 2002)

OF SEVERAL MINDS WILLIAM PFAFF DOES EUROPE NATTER? Yes & no Two developments of the past few months are certain to be crucial to the evolution of international balance in the twenty-first...

Dangers of victory (December 2001)

OF SEVERAL HINDS WILLIAM PFAFF DANGERS OF VICTORY Resisting the demand to widen the war I1t is possible to be optimistic, if cautiously so, about the damaging consequences the Taliban's...

An old story: Islamic society, not the West, faces the greater test. (November 2001)

OF SEVERAL HINDS WILLIAM PFAFF AN OLD STORY Muslim-Western conflict Behind the false idea that Osama bin Laden's attacks on the United States launched a modern war between...

Seeds of war: Understanding the Islamic fundamentalists (October 2001)

OF SEVERAL HIH0S WILLIAM PFAFF SEEDS OF WAR What drives Islamic fundamentalists The same Islamic fundamentalism that inspires Osama bin Laden is shared by the two Muslim states that...

Beware the jackals (September 2001)

OF SEVERAL MINDS WILLIAM PFAFF BEWAHE THE JAKALS Technology is not a sure defense The first thing that must be said about the attacks in New York and Washington on September 11 is...

Albanians in Macedonia (September 2001)

OF SEVERAL MINDS WILLIAM PFAFF ALBANIANS IN MACEDONIA Quit while you're ahead Peace in Macedonia and balance in the rest of the Balkans depend on whether the ethnic Albanian forces in...

Bob Kerrey's war (May 2001)

8 OF SEVERAL HINDS WILLIAM PFAFF BOB KERREY'S WAR U.S. policy condoned atrocity You can never really be rid of the past. Events of the past can resurface and change the orbits of...

Israel's moral burden (May 2001)

OF SEVERAL PIIHBS WILLIAM PFAFF ISRAEL'S MORAL BURDEN The toll occupation is taking President George W. Bush and his secretary of state, Colin Powell, have discovered that it is not so...

The Balkans boil over (April 2001)

WILLIAM PFAFF THE BALMAHS TOIL ®WEH The U.S. ftes NATO's hands One can debate the merits of interventionist versus noninterventionist foreign policy, but the worst policy of all is one...

The end of NATO: Fissures in an alliance (February 2001)

WILLIAM PFAFF THE END OF NATO Where U.S. & European interests diverge he debates which dominated the annual Munich Conference on International Security earlier this month— over U.S....

Strange allies (November 2000)

erated during the last month. Even...

Israel & the Palestinians (October 2000)

packed theaters. What's going on here? Exorcism, of course,...

Pinochet's downfall (September 2000)

versive elements." Official figures...

Africa founders (April 2000)

proach is suggested in kenotic theology, or the idea that God gives Godself com- pletely in the Incarnation. In God's hu- WILLIAM PFAFF mility, God accepts self-limitation on be- half of...

Peace in Kosovo? COLUMNISTS (March 2000)

So missy, Quo vadis? Maybe I should Worshipers attend to a threefold real- music, beauty, ritual, and sacred space, concentrate less on my dissatisfactions ity. God is in...

Right turn in Austria (February 2000)

er, in spite of understanding how wide there is no electricity to run them. reality as it is for most of the world, and the gulf was between me and the poor, I In America, where...

The future (February 2000)

William Pfaff THE FUTURE U.S. hegemony will be challenged I n talking about the future, it is necessary to understand that change ordinarily is very slow, but cumulative change is very fast,...

Taking religion seriously (November 1999)

O F S E V E R A L M IN D S WILLIAM PFAFF TAKING RELIGION SERIOUSLY They do it in godless Europe A striking difference between intellectual debate in Europe and in the United States...

Nuclear deterrence (October 1999)

OF SEVERAL MINDS WILLIAM PFAFF NUCLEAR DETERRENCE Why separate rules for the U.S.? I ndia has officially pub lished its nuclear strategy, which it describes as that of minimum...

How will Barak lead? (June 1999)

OF SEVERAL MINDS WILLIAM PFAFF HOW WILL BARAK LEAD? A new day for Israel The main foreign-relations challenge facing the new government of Israel is settlement with Syria....

A new kind of war (May 1999)

WILLIAM PFAFF A NEW KIND OF WAR Only civilians are killed student's letter to a Paris newspaper observed that NATO has created something without precedent in human history: a war in which...

Send in the troops (April 1999)

OF SEVERAL MINDS WILLIAM PFAFF SEND IN f HE TROOPS The only answer in Kosovo Hvacuation to Guam, Germany, or Turkey provides no solution to the Kosovo refugee problem. It...

Who's driving? (January 1999)

From the archives Thwuxhoiil 1999, Commonweal will be celebrating it* 75th amiimmiy. Here fiom the wry fir-it...

An engine needs brakes (November 1998)

n acute observer who was in Washington for the meeting of international financial institutions at the start of October says that he felt that he was attending a wake, a wake for...

Kill privacy, kill freedom (October 1998)

that welled up in his eyes at the mention of his brothers, Frankie and Joey, showed me that the family also knew about loss. While the brothers were fighting in Europe, two other Surek sons were...

Faulty Judgment (September 1998)

we must be still, and allow it to form US, This has to do not only with hierarchy as a principle, but at times with the hierarchy itself. A bishop may not be charismatic, a good...

Pol Pot's legacy (May 1998)

he two million or so murders for which Pol Pot and his movement were responsible in Cambodia were inspired by a desire to surpass in revolutionary zeal the Chinese cultural revolution, so...

A lapse in taste (May 1998)

ecution. Reza has balanced ninety minutes of human and intellectual insight onto a witty premise: three men--devoted friends for years--find their relationship crumbling after one of...

Bloodshed in Kosovo (March 1998)

medical science, especially organ transplants and genetic manipulation, combined with notions of unfettered individual choice and self-determination, are eroding even those barriers. When...

A new imperialism? (March 1998)

and chemical weapons--the fact that only a few such weapons can endanger the lives of millions, and perhaps the very peace of the world. Yes, other nations possess similar weapons. However, no...

THE CHINA TRIP:A SYMPOSIUM (March 1972)

THE CHINA TRIP a symposium William Pfaff ' . . . a s r u t h l e s s t n peace a s w a r ' T HE CHINA TRIP, important in itself, is most interesting as an episode in the American...

CRITICS' CHOICES FOR CHRISTMAS (December 1970)

CRITICS' CHOICES FOR CHRISTMAS BOOKS William Pfaff The book I read with the greatest pleasure during 1970 was undoubtedly Saul Bellow's novel, Mr. Sammler's Planet (Viking, $6.95). Its supreme...

A GRAND STRATEGY...FOR 1960 (March 1970)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS A GRAND STRATEGY . . . FOR 1960 The Nixon Administration's February message to Congress on foreign policy amounted to a signal of glacial movement, a marker of geological time...

COMMONWEAL'S FUTURE (November 1969)

COMMONWEAL'S FUTURE How 3 should the magazine see itself and its • future role? Former editors reply. who have been around...

THIS WAY OUT (February 1969)

are questioning their way of life and its relevance to the preaching of the gospel. And for this reason, the bishops plan to hold a special session of their plenary assembly at Pentecost, whose...

Up-Tight Little England (December 1968)

lems and acquiesced in Gov. Reagan's campaign to destroy the University of California. John Mitchell, the new attorney general, could be the most dangerous appointment of all. Only the...

Decoupling the Fear Factor (November 1968)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS DECOUPLING THE FEAR FACTOR There is a neglected issue at the heart of American policy towards Russia. Can arms control be separated-"decoupled," in the jargon--from the...

Repudiation Now (October 1968)

merely reports the evidence of his own senses, as his perception shapes that evidence: dirty, passive, strange, unreliable, careless. Andy points out that Harry Scott, the black man who works at...

CZECHOSLOVAKIA INVADED: (September 1968)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS Czechoslovakia Invaded Did the United States license Russia to crush Czechoslovakia? On the evidence both of past action and present response, yes. On the evidence, such as has...

THE 'LESSONS' OF MUNICH: (August 1968)

THE 'LESSON'S' OF MUNICH At the Munich conference of September 1938, at which Czechoslovakia was not represented, Great Britain and France agreed to German demands that Czechoslovakia be...

GNOSTIC EXPECTATIONS: (July 1968)

GNOSTIC EXPECTATIONS There is an important difference between revolution in the Third World and the revolutionary ideas and potentialities of Western Europe and the United States today. The Asian,...

AFTER ROBERT KENNEDY: (June 1968)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS AFTER ROBERT KENNEDY This country needs both reconciliation and reform. Can we have both? Robert Kennedy, even though his speeches were in many respects less radical than Eugene...

PARADOX OF POWER: (May 1986)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS PARADOX OF POWER Columbia University's rebel students, like the Viet Cong, have dramatically demonstrated how powerless established power can be. The power of a university, as of a...

LBJ AS MENDES-FRANCE: (April 1968)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS LBJ AS MENDES-FRANCE Lyndon Johnson has summoned peace from the troubled depths; but will it come? Sacrificing himself, reversing-however hesitantly-the direction of American...

MUDDIED AMERICAN MESSIANISM: (March 1968)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MUDDIED AMERICAN MESSIANISM I was recently told of a man, a professor of philosophy, who has said to friends that unless something happens to change American foreign policy and end...

THE LIBERAL CRISIS (January 1968)

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • FOREIGN AFFAIRS THE LIBERAL CRISIS The Shannon-Steinfels controversy in these pages is a good deal more important than any clash of radical and liberal temperaments....

THE LIBERALS' WAR (December 1967)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS THE LIBERALS' WAR Senator Robert Kennedy's declaration that the "whole moral position" of the United States in Vietnam has shifted since his brother was President may prove a...

THE REVOLUTION IN RETROSPECT (October 1967)

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • FOREIGN AFFAIRS THE REVOLUTION IN RETROSPECT Fifty years after the Bolshevik Revolution, what is most obvious about Russia is the distance between Lenin's vision and...

FROM SAIGON TO DETROIT: (September 1967)

Liturgical Week reflected this ecumenical fact by including the politics of the future. One of the most discussed papers an Ecumenical Conference on Christian Worship. This of the...

STAR-SPANGLED FASCISM: (August 1967)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS STAR-SPANGLED FASCISM It is 30 years ago this summer that the Fascist states emperor, of beaten...

WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO? (March 1967)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS WHAT ELSE CAN WE BO? The incorrigibly divided Vietnam described in this space last week might be understood as the "old" Vietnam resisting that national unification which has...

RIVALS FOR THE VIETCONG? (March 1967)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS RIVALS FOR THE VIETCONG? The repeated failure to get peace negotiations in Vietnam results, ultimately, from the fact that no one seems yet ready to negotiate anything of...

CHECKMATE IN VIETNAM (February 1967)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS Checkmate in Vietnam In Saigon today there is an American policy for victory in the war against the Viet Cong—but nobody quite believes in it. There are, in fact, policies for...

'ANOTHER VIETNAM' (February 1967)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS 'ANOTHER VIETNAM9 When the United States helps a small ally, especially an ally which flanks Vietnam, it arrives not only with money, arms, seaports, highways, jet airports, and...

DOES INTERVENTION WORK? (October 1966)

alone operate any warships in the rivers. Any such would have been bombed long ago." Even more interestingly, the pilot launches into a brief cost-analysis of destroying water buffalo, goats and...

THE LURE OF INVASION (September 1966)

by its sometimes self-serving eagerness to undertake it. Yet such a role also demands that France keep its distance from American foreign policy, whether reformed or not. Again, no conceivable...

THE STRATEGY OF THE WEAK (July 1966)

General, to buoy up flagging spirits after half a generation of deteriorating race relations and shrinking liberties. Only implicitly did Senator Kennedy touch upon what is probably the crux of...

NEO.ISOLATIONISM? (June 1966)

cepts the decision of the voters, as he has significantly declined to do, at this writing. We further hope that the Johnson Administration, which has a lot to atone for in the Dominican Republic,...

SWING, BRITANNIA (May 1966)

cases, leaders of left-wing Catholic organizations have had to leave the country. Recently, three 18-year-old members of Catholic University Action, an organization headed by the Archbishop of...

CHINA AND NAZI GERMANY? (April 1966)

enthusiasm. The hope spread to the seminary; for the Cardinal was saying now that he would meet with the seminarians after the U.S. bishops met at Washington in April to discuss the conciliar...

RIGHT AND LEFT (March 1966)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS RIGHT AND LEFT Right and Left mean something as political categories but it is hard to say exactly what. We could not do without them; yet their major effect today is to...

HAWKS AND REALISTS (January 1966)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS HAWKS AND REALISTS "A successful foreign policy," according to the British historian E. H. Carr, "must oscillate between the apparently opposite poles of force and appeasement....

AND THEN THERE WERE TWO (September 1965)

dividuals there perused and passed around copies of a document known as "The Atlanta Statement." "The Atlanta Statement" is a recent manifesto of a group of university chaplains calling for...

THE PAROCRIAL AMERICAN (August 1965)

To pursue these objectives, the U.S. has, in effect, taken full charge of the war. We lost the political war. We then lost the war of the strategic hamlets, the U.S. military advisers, and the...

COMPUTERIZED DIPLOMACY (July 1965)

0 0 0 0 0 _9 0 _9 0 0 O0 _9 _9 FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMPUTERIZED DIPLOMACY When it is said that the Pentagon has taken over American foreign policy, the implied charge is that conservatives,...

ON BEING TOUGH (June 1965)

to channel protest into legal activities. But to imagine all is well is to misunderstand, or to ignore, the basic causes of the discontent that led to last summer's troubles and which today...

YANKEES VS. LATINS (May 1965)

placing the defender of that policy in the camp of the omnipresent jingoists. GUN BATTLE Senator Kefauver's drug bill languished in Congress until the thalidomide babies were born. The bill...

NO VICTORY IN VIETNAM (April 1965)

that calls for more and more police, stop-and-frisk laws, and tougher penalties all round. It also generates the violence-for-its-own-sake type of crime that keeps a good part of our urban...

RETURN TO ISOLATION? (March 1965)

was followed. No attempt was made to "put over a fast one." And while the blockade was certainly a case of escalation, the "stage" of escalation was clearly defined, as was the response which...

Vietnam and Reality (February 1965)

Negroes are eligible to vote. In one suit filed against Selma and Dallas County officials, the Justice Department pointed out that from June 1954 to 1960 the County Board of Registrars registered...

THE CONGO (February 1965)

THE CONGO Is what is happening another Boxer Rebellion? WILLIAM PFAFF Stanleyville was never a good place. The heat is deathly most of the year; the great, humid forest of the equatorial Congo...

Books (April 1961)

BOOKS Policy and Politics of International Life A HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR. By John Lukacs. Doubleday. $3. 95. By WILLIAM PFAFF THE DISTINCTION between international policy and international...

The Technology of War (March 1961)

The Technology of War Like gunpowder in another age, nuclear weapons must have the ultimate result of making the small the equal of the great by EDMUND STILLMAN and WILLIAM PFAFF I T IS NOT...

III The Challenge of the Specific (October 1959)

ill-The Challenge of the Specific Criticism of the United Nations by ,~ ROBERT E. LUCEY T EN years after the adoption of the Charter of the United Nations, the fundamental facts of...

The Arab Refugees (November 1957)

These homeless people could destroy whatever stability now exists in the Middle East The Arab Refugees by WILLIAM PFAFF T HE REFUGEES: one cannot talk of the Middle East and ignore these...

Books (December 1956)

Challenges of Our Time CONTEMPORARY CHURCH ART. By Anton Henze and Theodore Filthaut. Sheed and Ward. $7.50. By H. A. REINHOLD THE OLD saying that there is no way of settling an argument about...

Books (October 1956)

BOOKS Discomfort and Discontent in the Emperor's Army ZONE OF EMPTINESS. By Hiroshi Noma. World. $3.95. By EDWIN KENNEBECK THIS IS a sort of Japanese From Here to Eternity, attempting to picture...

Long Road to Baghdad (September 1956)

"A SENSE OF AGE" Long Road to Baghdad WILLIAM PFAFF 1-~EOPLE LIKE to say that modern transportation u and communications have made the world smaller. They have done that, but, more important,...

Books (August 1956)

BOOKS Frank, Lucid Appraisal of Controversial F. D. R. ROOSEVELT: THE LION AND THE FOX. By James MacGregor Burns. Harcourt, Brace. $5.75. By MICHAEL HARRINGTON I T IS over a decade since...

Book Reviews (March 1956)

The Moral Burden of Mr. Greene's Parable THE QUIET AMERICAN. By Graham Greene. Viking. $3.50. By WILLIAM CLANCY G RAHAM GREENE, it should by now be universally acknowledged, has one of the...

Book Reviews (December 1955)

BOOKS The Writer as Vengeful Moralist THE DEER PARK. By Norman Mailer. Putnam. $4. By WILLIAM PFAFF I WONDER if the novelist is not dangerously overrated in this country. The key to national...

Books (October 1955)

BOOKS Lost Personalities in a Modern Setting CARDS OF IDENTITY. By Nigel Dennis. Vanguard. $3.75. By ANTHONY BAILEY W HEN this very amusing and provocative book appeared in England some...

The Enemy is Within (August 1955)

FROM SYRIA The Enemy Is Within Damascus m CITY as fine and lovely and old as Damascus ought not be background for the unfortunate political history of modern Syria. This oldest of the world's...

Progress of a Revolution (August 1955)

FROM EGYPT Progress of a Revolution Cairo HERE are the Pyramids, and here they have been since the Egyptians dominated the the world, thirty centuries before the time of Christ. Five thousand...

The Pattern of Colonialism (July 1955)

The Pattern of Colonialism "THE CONGO RUNS WITH THE NOISELESS EFFICIENCY OF A LINCOLN, AND THE DRIVER'S SEAT IS IN BRUSSELS" WILLIAM PFAFF T HE Belgian presence in central Africa is...

Colonialism, Belgian Style (July 1955)

FROM THE BELGIAN CONGO Colonialism, Belgian Style M OST of the Belgian Congo is a vast crater. Once it was filled with a sea, but the sea spilled out the crack which is the Congo River ,and...

The Survivor's Debt (January 1955)

BOOKS The Survivor's Debt WILLIAM PFAFF F ROM lhe beginning to the end of Arthur Koestler's autobiography, as regular as the chapter headings, like a rhythm, or, as he says himself, like a...

The Asian Horizon (September 1954)

The Asian Horizon ASIA IS IN A REVOLUTION WHOSE OUTCOME IS MORE THAN A LITTLE DOUBTFUL WILLIAM PFAFF p HOENIX Asia is the place where the world is being changed, and the place where the...

News on the Networks (April 1954)

THE PROBLEM OF PARTISANSHIP News on the Networks WILLIAM PFAFF W HEN Samuel F. B. Morse discovered that electric current could be made to actuate a signaling device rover long-distance wires,...

Two Kinds of War (June 1953)

representations and proceedings which the family has been forced to undertake to recover the custody of the children, as the children's father desired it. I understand that seventeen French...

Combat Medics (February 1953)

Combat Medics BACK DOWN THE RIDGE. By W. L. White. Harcourt, Brace. $3. By WILLIAM PFAFF THE accomplishments of the Army and Marine medical services are often enough referred to— a bow to the...

The Screen (October 1951)

The Screen ALL THE TALENT MONEY CAN BUY O NCE a young ,American was in Paris on a September Sunday afternoon. He and a friend decided to have tea. They took a taxi across the Place de...

The Future That Is Already Here (September 1951)

The Future That Is Already Here By WILLIAM PFAFF TIME, history, the moment can be vertical and can be horizontal. That is to say, there are layers and there are shafts in the history of a place...

The Naked, the Dead and the Novels (September 1951)

The Naked, the Dead and the Novels By WILLIAM PFAFF WHEN YOU meet the pleasant middle-aged ladies who are friends of your family, they say "My, how the Army has changed you!" This is a...

Books (March 1951)

Books The Grand Peregrination. Maurice Collis. Macmillan. $4.50. THE ORIGINAL title of the sixteenth - century Portuguese book by Fernao Mendes Pinto, which The Grand Peregrination renders and...

Books (November 1950)

Books The Age of Faith. Will Durant. Simon and Schuster. $7.50. THIS survey of medieval history forms the fourth in the proposed series of six volumes of The Story of Civilization, by the author of...

Force (October 1950)

Force POWER corrupts what? For one thing, it corrupts intellects, because force offers a simple (costly, yes, but simple) method of action in situations where intellectual and social action would be...

The Screen (October 1950)

The Screen THE LITTLE WORLD OF PAPA H. COLERIDGE'S remark about the willing sus-pension of disbelief is usefully applied to the work of John O'Hara's friend, Ernest Hemingway. The world of...

Report on ADA (May 1950)

Philadelphia, breaking 65 years of machine rule. Groups in New York, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Louisville and San Francisco also played an influential part in municipal elections. THE convention...

Pfaff, Willima

Pfal, William

Pfeffer, Leo

Pfeiffer, Edward H.

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