How the World Works

condemn Chile and the Chileans to utmost deprivation and poverty.” That was the soft line. There was a massive destabilization a ...

Guatemala, in Greece. That’s always the worry—the threat of a good example. Kissinger also said, again speaking about Chile, “I ...

Cambodia Would you talk a little about the notion of unworthy vs. worthy victims? [Former New York Times and Newsday reporter an ...

There is one American atrocity he did report (for about three days); The Killing Fields, the movie that’s based on his story, op ...

Finally, there was public reaction in Britain. The person who started it off was Peggy Duff, a marvelous woman who died a couple ...

MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS Consumption vs. well-being The United States, with 5% of the world’s population, consumes 40% of the world’ ...

with many different industries in it, including some fairly sophisticated manufacturing. It’s economically quite successful, but ...

Not unless people react. If power is left in the hands of transnational investors, the people will just die. Nuclear power At a ...

You’ve suggested that, to further democracy, people should be “seeking out authoritarian structures and challenging them, elimin ...

What you can do Radio listener: Taking it down to the individual, personal level, I got a notice in my public service bill that ...

of things are possible, depending on where you want to put your efforts. ...

THE COMMON GOOD FIRST PUBLISHED 1998 6 US PRINTINGS 6 FOREIGN EDITIONS 63,000 COPIES IN PRINT ...

THE COMMON GOOD That dangerous radical Aristotle Early in January 1997, you gave a talk at a conference in Washington DC. It was ...

and rich, you can’t talk seriously about democracy. Any true democracy has to be what we call today a welfare state—actually, an ...

“benevolent philosophers,” not investors and corporate executives trying to maximize their own wealth regardless of the effect t ...

the relative equality he thought he saw in American society. (He exaggerated it considerably, but let’s put aside the question o ...

to justify the oppressive, discriminatory patterns that existed in the past. On the other hand, affirmative action should certai ...

He expressed mild interest and suggested I fill out a form. When I went over to the desk to get one, I found out that it costs 3 ...

money to contribute to the library, or time to use it, or knowledge of what to look for once they’re there. Let me tell you a di ...

see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.” It must have been an internal memo or talk—that’s not the kind of thing yo ...