Category: From the Editors
Bravo, President-Elect Obama!
At long last, a protracted and often fierce election campaign is over. America has selected its new president. We congratulate Barack Obama, and we pledge our support for his efforts! President-elect Obama will face awesome problems left over from the Bush administration. But let us focus on the positive. Obama is the first person of …
New Dimensions for American Democracy
At long last, a protracted and often fierce election campaign is over. America has selected its new president. We congratulate Barack Obama, and we pledge our support for his efforts! President-elect Obama will face awesome problems left over from the Bush administration. But let us focus on the positive. Obama is the first person of …
A Plea for Real Change
The upcoming general elections in the United States may be the most momentous in several decades. In many ways, the choice between (presumably) Barack Obama and John McCain will be a referendum on the nation’s future at a fundamental level. Free Inquiry does not endorse candidates—indeed, as the journal of a nonprofit organization it cannot …
Restoring Universal Human Rights at the United Nations
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that monumental and hopeful document that extends equal dignity to every member of the human family and relies on the rule of right as the only final recourse against violence and war. Since its inception, the United Nations has kept at its …
Retake The Moral High Ground
The United States has been ridding itself of its First World status for as long as it has been privatizing its critical infrastructure (a.k.a. the common good), at the same time despoiling the natural resource embodied in the health, welfare, courage, and intelligence of its citizenry. —Lewis H. Lapham As we write, Hillary Clinton …