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2003 Articles Archive

Staci B. Haldi: "The Draft--For Democracy" [calls for a new universal system of conscription] (distributed 1/14/03)

Ralph E. Luker: "Asking Martin Luther King...." [Martin Luther King, Jr.'s message still has resonance today] (distributed 1/17/03)

Andrew M. Schocket: "Grand Fenwick, Afghanistan and Iraq" [Are there lessons for the president in "The Mouse That Roared"?] (distributed 1/23/03)

Ira Chernus: "Brandishing Nukes -- A Self-Defeating Policy" [Bush administration threats of nuclear strikes on Iraq will not achieve administration goals] (distributed 2/3/03)

Jonathan Coopersmith: "Can we boldly go there any more?" [cost, rather than risk, may determine the future of the space program] (distributed 2/7/03)

Robert Brent Toplin: "Bush Needs War - FAST" [the economy and public opinion are driving President Bush toward war] (distributed 2/24/03)

Howard N. Meyer: "Will We Turn the U.N. Charter into a "Scrap of Paper"?" [George Bush's actions may violate Constitution] (distributed 3/4/03)

David Greenberg: "Affirming 'Under God' Ruling Is a Higher Form of Patriotism" [The words "Under God" in the pledge of allegiance] (distributed 3/6/03)

Peter Maguire: "Following Bad Precedents for Deciding Military Justice" [Military tribunals and the war on terrorism] (distributed 3/7/03)

Ronald K. Edgerton: "Another American Front in Southeast Asia?" [The dangers of American military imperialism] (distributed 3/7/03)

Fred Nielsen: "With God on Our Side" [George W. Bush and God's Will] (distributed 3/20/03)

Geoffrey Roberts: "Why Baghdad Will Not Be a Stalingrad" [Assessing the Iraqi leadership's Stalingrad analogy] (distributed 3/24/03)

Henry Butterfield Ryan: "Democracy-Building Will Be Tougher This Time" [Democracy in Iraq] (distributed 3/25/03)

Jonathan Dresner: "Can Iraq Learn to Live in Peace?" [The chances for remilitarization in Iraq] (distributed 3/28/03)

Norman Markowitz: "A New Kind of Anti-Americanism" [The world's loss of respect for American democratic culture] (distributed 4/4/03)

Nikolas K. Gvosdev: "Pragmatic de-Baathification is Key to Rebuilding Iraq" [Postwar Iraq compared to postwar Germany] (distributed 4/13/03)

Christopher Gerteis: "U.S. Credibility at Stake in Iraq" [The United States and pre-emptive wars] (distributed 4/13/03)

William C. Kashatus: "Celebrating a Genuine American Hero" [The centennial of Lou Gehrig's birth] (distributed 4/15/03)

Michael E. Latham: "Where Will "Liberation" Lead?" [The United States' spotty record of fostering democratic governments] (distributed 4/15/03)

Jonathan Dresner: "Avoiding a Pearl Harbor in Korea" [The parallels between Japan in 1941 and North Korea in 2003] (distributed 5/12/03)

William Lambers: "A Danger Shared by All" [Stopping nuclear proliferation] (distributed 5/18/03)

Timothy Walch: "The Writing Is Faded, the Message Lives" [Restoring the Declaration of Independence] (distributed 6/19/03)

Joyce Appleby: "A New Abolition Movement -- Against Poverty" [19th century abolition movement as a template for social action] (distributed 6/19/03)

Stephen A. Allen: "Gay Rights: Separate but Equal?" [Gay people still lack full constitutional protection] (distributed 7/8/03)

C. E. Richard: "Speaking Truth to Catholic Power" [Criticism and the Catholic church through history] (distributed 7/8/03)

Ross Collins: "Could SARS Set off Another Great Pandemic?" [SARS and the Spanish Flu of the 1920s] (distributed 7/11/03)

Ralph E. Luker: "Burma's Hope Imprisoned" [Burmese democracy and Aung San Suu Kyi] (distributed 7/11/03)

C. E. Richard: "Learning to Dance With the French" [The long history of American-French tension] (distributed 7/13/03)

Ira Chernus: "Forgotten War, Tragic Peace" [Time to move past the Korean War] (distributed 7/23/03)

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: "What Are They Thinking in Beijing?" [Recent events and the new regime] (distributed 8/8/03)

Ralph E. Luker: "Changing the Constitution to Protect Adam and Eve?" [Gay marriage and the Constitution] (distributed 8/11/03)

William C. Kashatus: "Giving Up on the Dream?" [Black leadership has forgotten King's vision] (distributed 8/15/03)

Matthew Pinsker: "What I Did On My Summer Vacation, by the President" [Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home] (distributed 8/17/03)

Bertram Wyatt-Brown: "Redeeming Honor -- the South and Iraq" [Iraq and the post-Civil War South] (distributed 8/28/03)

Ian C. Friedman: "Don't Expect Arnold to be Another Reagan" [Ronald Reagan vs. Arnold Schwarzenegger] (distributed 9/1/03)

Nathan Abrams: "The Bible as a Political Tool" [Separation of church and state in America] (distributed 9/4/03)

David Greenberg: "Wesley Clark: In the Tradition of Generals Who Make Peace" [Generals as political candidates] (distributed 9/17/03)

Jonathan Coopersmith: "China's Manned Space Program: an Opportunity for Cooperation," [The U.S. and China compared to the U.S. and U.S.S.R] (distributed 10/14/03)

Andrew Schocket: "A Dirty--and Deadly--Trick," [The Valerie Plame scandal in historical context] (distributed 10/14/03)

William Kashatus: "A President Who Was Still Growing," [Assessing JFK's historical legacy] (distributed 11/8/03)

Michael Bellesiles: "The Limits of Shock and Awe," [Putting too much faith in military technology] (distributed 11/11/03)

Robert Brent Toplin: "'The Reagans': The Spirit of Censorship Lives," [The motives of those who protested CBS' planned miniseries] (distributed 11/11/03)

Jeremy Ravi Mumford: "Once more, Bolivians Seek Independence," [Bolivia and American neo-colonialism] (distributed 11/11/03)

Andrew Schocket: "Gay-Marriage Decision: Just the Beginning of the Debate," [The debate over gay marriage versus the debate over slavery] (distributed 11/29/03)

Bob Batchelor: "Is Retailing's Death Star Vulnerable After All?" [Wal-Mart and Woolworth's] (distributed 12/2/03)

Henry Butterfield Ryan: "What the Vietnam War Tells Us About Iraq," [The strategic lessons of the Vietnam War] (distributed 12/9/03)

Benjamin Braude: "Getting Government Out of Marriage, and Vice Versa," [Biblical morality and modern morality] (distributed 12/13/03)

Robert Widen: "Iraq, Too, Must Separate Church and State," [The United States in the 1880s compared to modern Iraq] (distributed 12/13/03)

Ira Chernus: "For Mom, Blueberry Pie -- and Iraq?" [Popular support for WW II and the war in Iraq] (distributed 12/20/03)

Alice L. George: "How Bush Might Have Profited from Kennedy's Example," [The Cuban Missile Crisis compared to the war in Iraq] (distributed 12/20/03)

William Lambers: "A Model for a Nuclear-Free Middle East," [The Middle East compared to Latin America in the 1960s] (distributed 12/29/03)

Nikolas K. Gvosdev: "Hybrid Justice for Hussein," [How best to try Saddam Hussein] (distributed 12/29/03)

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