February 15, 2013A Victory for Historical Amnesia in the Baltic: The Enduring Danger of RevisionismThose who forget the past are condemned to repeat it – or so it’s said. But what of those who don’t simply forget the past, but […]
February 15, 2013The Three Billion ClubHumans are crowding into the rafters of the planet. Are we on a march to an extinction of our own making? Or can we get a […]
December 8, 2012Water For All: The Nile Basin ConundrumEgypt is the “Gift of the Nile,” said Herodotus, some 3,000 years ago. That is still true today, but as the struggle for resources heats up […]
December 8, 2012The Newsroom: Art Imitating a Bygone Reality“This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined […]