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NOV 30, 2004 Podcast

Humanitarianism under Fire

How can humanitarian organizations and their workers maintain their traditional neutrality, impartiality, and independence—and should they?

NOV 18, 2004 Podcast

Bioethical Debates on Human Enhancement

Edited transcript of a 11/18/04 Leonard Lopate show on WNYC radio on the ethical challenges posed by the rapid advances in biotechnology.

Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe

NOV 16, 2004 Podcast

Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe

Graham Allison makes a sobering assessment on why a nuclear attack on U.S. soil is inevitable unless we take immediate, well-concerted measures.

OCT 30, 2004 Podcast

The Human Rights of the Sukan Al-ahwar (Marsh Arabs of Iraq)

According to Baroness Nicholson, the Saddam regime's crimes against the Marsh Arabs from 1991 to 2003 constitute an incontrovertible case of genocide, which is in its turn "...

OCT 28, 2004 Podcast

In Defense of Globalization

While a leading free trade proponent, professor Jagdish Bhagwati does not advocate total laissez-faire economics. Instead he argues that continued globalization needs to be "managed."

OCT 26, 2004 Podcast

The Marsh Arabs of Iraq: The Legacy of Saddam Hussein and an Agenda for Restoration and Justice

While Saddam Hussein's persecution of the Kurds is well known, few are aware that he drained Iraq's southern marshlands as part of a deliberate strategy ...

Arguing About War by Michael Walzer

OCT 13, 2004 Podcast

Arguing About War (2004)

Walzer rejects the argument that the invasion of Iraq was justified: "It is only massacre or ethnic cleansing or mass enslavement in progress that justifies ...

Arguing About War by Michael Walzer

OCT 13, 2004 Podcast

Arguing About War (2004)

Walzer rejects the argument that the invasion of Iraq was justified: "It is only massacre or ethnic cleansing or mass enslavement in progress that justifies ...

Arguing About War by Michael Walzer

OCT 13, 2004 Podcast

Arguing About War (2004)

Walzer rejects the argument that the invasion of Iraq was justified: "It is only massacre or ethnic cleansing or mass enslavement in progress that justifies ...

SEP 24, 2004 Podcast

A response to Elsa Stamatopoulou's paper "Why Cultural Rights Now?" (9/23/04)

In this discussion of Elsa Stamatopoulou's paper "Why Cultural Rights Now?" Richard Wilson remarks that she takes a "mediated" or "modulated universalism" view on human ...