When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gave the commencement address at Harvard University in 1978, many Americans expected to hear their country praised by this celebrated refugee from a totalitarian state. Instead they heard some sharply critical views of their legal system, their press, their popular culture, and even their national will. The forthright and controversial speech makes up Part One of this book. A sampling of the avalanche of comment that followed it is included in Part Two. In Part Three, six thoughtful scholars reflect on the ideas and judgments expressed by the great Russian writer.

Solzhenitsyn at Harvard: The Address, Twelve Early Responses, Six Later Reflections

Various, Contributors

Ethics & Public Policy Center

Will Capitalism Survive: A Challenge by Paul Johnson With 12 Responses

Business & Money

Economics

When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gave the commencement address -- "A World Split Apart" -- at Harvard University in 1978, many Americans expected to hear their country praised by this celebrated refugee from a totalitarian state. Instead they heard some sharply critical views of their legal system, their press, their popular culture, and even their national will. The forthright and controversial speech makes up Part One of this book. A sampling of the avalanche of responses from the commentariat is included in Part Two, including newspaper articles and essays by thinkers such as Archibald MacLeish, Mary McGrory and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. In Part Three, six thoughtful scholars -- include Sidney Hook and Richard Pipes-- reflect, after the furor had somewhat subsided, on the ideas and judgments expressed by the great Russian writer. 143 pages.

Solzhenitsyn at Harvard: The Address, Twelve Early Responses, and Six Later Reflections (Ethics and Public Policy Reprints)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Liberation theologians often confuse salvation with achieving social justice. They present Christ as a political liberator, and they advocate the use of violence to bring about revolutionary change. After an introduction by the editor, this volume begins with a seminal essay written in 1974 by the influential liberation theologian Gustavo Guti

Pope and Revolution: John Paul II Confronts Liberation Theology

Religion & Spirituality

Quade, Quentin L.

Christian Books & Bibles

Crisis and Opportunity: U. S. Policy in Central America and the Caribbean

Five European and five American political and religious leaders look at the morality of nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence. Among their subjects are the history of the nuclear arms issue, the arms-control policy of the Reagan administration, the nuclear debate in German and American churches, the U.S. Catholic bishops' pastoral letter on nuclear arms, whether NATO should pledge "no first use," and how the traditional Christian view of war and peace applies to the nuclear age.

Ethics and Nuclear Arms

History

Norman, Edward R.

Military

The Strategic Defense Initiative, announced by President Reagan in March 1983, has become the focus of the debate over nuclear weapons policy. These thirty-five articles and speeches reflect a wide range of views, from the "New Republic, NATO Review, Foreign Affairs, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Catholicism in Crisis," and many other sources.

Promise or Peril: The Strategic Defense Initiative

Explores the re-emergence of fundamentalists within the world of politics and discusses their growing influence on public life

Piety and Politics

Ethics and Public Policy Center (Washington, D. C.)

In this volume, three distinguished scholars examine a perplexing question: Why do many Westerners willingly believe the propaganda of one of the most notorious regimes in history) the Soviet Union? Sidney Hook places this phenomenon in the context of twentieth-century history. Vladimir Bukovsky shows how the Soviets have been able to manipulate Western public opinion and desire for peace. Paul Hollander surveys the continuing misunderstandings about the Soviet Union among Western people and argues that better information alone cannot remedy the situation.

Soviet Hypocrisy and Western Gullibility

Hook, Sidney

BUKOVSKY, Vladimir

Hollander, Paul

Politics & Government

Education, public trust, knowledge

Education and the Public Trust: The Imperative for Common Purposes

Education & Teaching

Edwin J. Delattre

Schools & Teaching

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