The consensus thesis allows pundits to settle into the comfortable role of brave prophet standing alone against the warmongering tide.
Dissent
Letters
Ethiopia’s Prisoners of Blood
I have come back here to die,” Desta Abdissa told me in Addis Ababa, “and the sooner the better.” Desta is an Oromo, the largest of Ethiopia’s eighty ethnic groups, comprising as much as half the population. He comes from …
Letters
Minority Rights: On the Importance of Local Knowledge
A small set of crucial human rights are valued, at least in theory, by all governments in the contemporary world. Rights against torture, murder, genocide, and slavery are simply not contested in the public rhetoric of the international arena. Of …
Letters
The Science Wars in India
What do left intellectuals do when they know that they are too marginalized to change the world? They get busy interpreting the world, of course. And interpreting how we interpret the world, and how the non-Western “Others” interpret it, and …
Cross-Border Labor Solidarity
Even before NAFTA, the United Electrical Workers union (UE) and the Mexican Frente Autentico del Trabajo (FAT) fashioned a strategic organizing alliance targeting “runaway” General Electric plants in the maquiladora region. The Teamsters union and the FAT undertook...
Letters
Distortions in the China Debate
American discussions of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have been distorted by two interrelated developments: (1) attempts by some of the most vocal supporters and critics of Clinton’s approach to China, as well as the mainstream media covering their …