Between Dignity and Human Rights  

Books and Articles Discussed in this Essay: Dignity: Its History and Meaning, by Michael Rosen (Harvard University Press, 2012) A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, by Mary Ann Glendon (New York: Random House, …



Aryeh Neier Replies  

Ordinarily, when a writer responds to a review, he discusses what is said in it. As Chomsky can’t be bothered, for those who missed what I wrote, I will summarize it in a few sentences. I said that Chomsky dismisses …



Inconvenient Facts  

The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo by Noam Chomsky Common Courage Press, 1999, 199 pp $15.95 Early in Noam Chomsky’s diatribe against NATO’s military intervention in Kosovo, he cites George Orwell’s preface to Animal Farm. Orwell discussed the way …



Language and Minorities  

If the many conflicts worldwide over minority rights, one of the most enduring, intractable, and lethal is the struggle in Sri Lanka between Tamil separatists and the Sinhalese majority. In thirteen years of civil war, a country with no external …



When Bad Things Happen to Bad People  

There is a wonderful, even breathtaking, passage in Elliott Abrams’s book in which he reproduces a letter by his wife Rachel that expresses her fury at the prosecutors who secured the criminal indictment of her husband for improperly withholding information …



Central America–Pain and Struggle  

The astonishing thing about the Reagan administration’s policy toward Nicaragua is its resiliency. Twice in the space of a year, it appeared that the administration’s sponsorship of a proxy war was on the brink of failure: in November 1986, when …