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The
Humanist
JULY/AUGUST 2002
Volume 62,
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Cover Story
Bush's Axis of Enemies
by John M. Swomley
George W. Bush has now declared six nations to be "evil." What does he mean by this? And why does his list fail to include some of the most violent and terrorist-supporting regimes in the world?
Origins of the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
By David Schafer
Back before the recent violence, before the 1967 war, and even before the establishment of Israel itself in 1948, the current Middle East conflict was underway. Enmities run so deep, in fact, that both Israelis and Palestinians now claim the source an be discovered in the book of Genesis. But it wasn't always this way and it's important to understand the causal factors that lay the groundwork for today's strife.
Special
2001 Humanist Essay Contest Results
Articles
Virtual Democracy and the Prison-Industrial Complex
By Melissa Barthelemy
As the United States advocates the principles of democracy and struggles against authoritarian regimes around the globe, the practices of its criminal justice system can be seen as evidence that the United States is, itself, authoritarian.
Finding Freedom
By Shahada Liberty Reardon
One woman who, from age twelve to twenty, was immersed in Islamic fundamentalism found the courage and power to liberate herself through a desire to think for herself and a determined pursuit of knowledge.
When Foreign Intervention Is Justified: Women Under the Taliban
By Rose V. Lindgren
Through objective standards of human rights and established procedures of international law there is legitimate cause to critique and actively overthrow the arbitrary cultural values of groups like the Taliban.
Born to Die: The Tragedy of Being Born the "Wrong" Gender
By Shanam Saini
What is it like for a mother to murder her baby simply because the infant is female? What social and cultural conditions can so rob a person, a family, and a society of humanity? And when will we look beyond the sterile facts of female infanticide and begin to care?
Child Soldiers
By Sarah Rose Miller
Babes in Bombland: what possible reasons are there for the worldwide practice of recruiting child soldiers? What conditions do these children suffer in military units? And what can we do to end this all too common human rights violation?
Teaching Our Children About Evil
By Jeffrey S. Victor
After September 11, 2001, President Bush declared the world is fighting "evil." But is a humanist definition of evil possible? Victor says, yes-if we look at the creative and destructive potentials within the human personality and the social and parental forces that nurture them.
Humanizing the Enemy, Empowering a Nation Through Nonviolence
By Carly Heath
On the other hand, Heath says, no, there can be no humanist definition of evil. The term is too general, religious, self-serving, and violently emotive to have credibility or rationality.
Features:
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
UP FRONT:
A Tale of Two Peoples
A Tale of Two Rallies
Still Not Good Enough - From Barbie to Botox
CHURCH AND STATE: Crisis in the Catholic
PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING: The Moral Code and the Trials That Test Our Adherence to It
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: The United Nations and the Ivory Coast
THE CULTURE WAR: Deconstructing Gender, Sex, and Sexuality As Applied to Identity
REVIEWS
THE POPULAR CONDITION:
Death with Dignity: The Ultimate Human Right?
ALTERNATIVE VOICES:
Weapons of Choice
LIVING HUMANISM:
200,000 Times
WORTH NOTING
FIRST PERSON:
Dear Mom
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