Fall 2024

Two general attitudes seem to surface in all arguments about the post-Yugoslav wars. The first is the one with which Denitch begins: Slays of all sorts are annoyed if it is suggested that some special historical curse attaches to them …

One interpretation of events in Bosnia-Herzegovina is that over recent weeks we have been receiving direct satellite images from Thomas Hobbes’s “state of nature.” The accompanying commentary has been mainly outrage and lamentation, punctuated by demands that something be done, by …