Hrishabh Sandilya

Trouvère to a generation, Hollywood screenwriter, distinguished professor and amongst the ‘100 coolest people in Los Angeles,’ James Ragan has read for six Heads of State, with Bob Dylan, and to a standing ovation from 100,000 people in the USSR. Not a politician, but his politics have long played a role in both his poetry and his life. From protests in the 60s to reading for the Supreme Soviet and at the United Nations, Ragan has always been an astute social commentator and chronicler through his work.  His most recent anthology of poems “Too Long Solitude” was published in 2009 by the University of Oklahoma Press. A summer Prague resident, he talks about President Havel, the current state of America, the survival of the Arts and other things dear to him, in this expansive interview with Hrishabh Sandilya. (more…)

William A. Cohn (Spring 2009 Issue)
In Prague, US President Barack Obama set forth a comprehensive framework for nuclear disarmament. As nuclear threats are spreading, the movement to abolish nuclear weapons is growing, but time is not on its side. (more…)

Benjamin Cunningham (Spring 2009 Issue)
Steps to limit nuclear arms are admirable, but an international effort to regulate small arms would do more to save lives. (more…)

Alexander Ač (Spring 2009 Issue)
Climate Sceptics propagate false arguments to forestall the implementation of policies which combat climate change. (more…)

Marcel Kaba (Spring 2009 Issue)
Contrary to former President George W. Bush’s belief that “I don’t care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass,” preventive war-waging, as demonstrated in the Bush Doctrine, does not kick ass. Preventive self-defense is an illegal, counter-productive policy which sets deadly precedents for other states to follow. (more…)

Lukáš Kovanda (Spring 2009 Issue)
A Reassessment of positivism in Economics. (more…)

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