by Melvin Burke, Kraig A. Schwartz, and William G. Steele
Voices From a War Zone
by Fred Pelka
The true nature of the Serbian genocide against the peoples of Croatia and Bosnia has been smothered by a blanket of silence in the West. It is time to set the record straight--before the international community rewards the Serbs for their successful aggression.
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Merchants of Flesh: International Prostitution and the War on Women's Rights
by Alice Leuchtag
In many Third World countries, the "sex tour" industry has become an important vehicle for acquiring hard currency and paying off international development loans. What can humanists do to help Third World women who are being cruelly exploited as a national "resource"?
Stakeholders versus Stockholders: The Populist Challenge to "Free Trade"
by Steven Hill
What recourse does a community have when a multinational corporation decides to leave town--and leaves a destroyed economy and massive unemployment in its wake? Should such a decision be based solely on profit margins for absentee stockholders? Or should the "stakeholders"--the workers and the local citizens--have a voice? Claims of "stakeholders' rights" are rousing a new furor.
Chaos and Cosmos: The Search for Meaning in Modern Art
by Bruce Hinrichs
Unorthodox, unconventional, even bizarre, the Modernist movement thoroughly challenged the old verities and conceptions of art--and has been challenged, in its turn, by the Post-modernist mode. What does such restless experimentation tell us about the search for cosmos in a world of seeming chaos?
Science Fiction and Human Nature
by Michael C. Milam
Optimistic platitudes about human nature are the naivest kind of science fiction--from which even humanists are not immune. If we are ever to come to grips with the problems of this world, we must be willing to recognize the dark side of our humanity.
