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Volume 26 - April 1983

Contents

Page 6 of 13

Excursus 4

Articles

  • Noah and the Nuclear Rainbow

  • Arthur Waskow
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 September 2018, pp. 17-19

  • In the last few centuries the conventional assumption of both modern secularists and the religious communities has been that our world is too new, our problems too unprecedented, for the ancient systems of religious thought and practice to be useful. I am proposing exactly the opposite approach: That precisely because our world is so new, we must draw on the ancient wisdoms.

    We might test this approach against the one fact of our lives that is the most radically unprecedented: that the survival of the human race is in danger, and even the survival of all life on earth is in serious question. How could there emerge from ancient religious traditions that are rooted in a world of firewood and olive oil, spears and chariots, any useful answers to this unprecedented possibility?

Columns

Excursus 2

Columns

Reviews

Articles

  • Cuba in the Red

  • Wilson P. Dizard III
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 September 2018, pp. 17-20

  • [H]as not Batista jeopardized the credit of the country for 30 years? Has not the public debt increased to more than 800 million pesos? Is there not a deficit of more than 100 million? Are not the monetary reserves of the nation pledged to foreign banks in a desperate search for money? Were not 350 million pesos of the most recent loan wasted on the purchase of jet planes and things of that nature, without plan or program, for no other reason than personal whim? Can one play in this manner with the destiny of a nation ? Did anyone authorize him to undertake these insane credit ventures? Did he consult the people in any way?…It is for us more than anyone else to be concerned because we and future generations will have to pay the terrible consequences of that corrupt and unchecked policy.

    —Fidel Castro, Manifesto No. 1 to the People of Cuba, August 8, 1955

Columns

Books

Columns

Excursus 5

Books

Columns

Articles

  • The New Spain

  • Gary Prevost
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 September 2018, pp. 19-21

  • Last October, seven years after the death of General Franco and five years after the re-establishment of parliamentary democracy, Spaniards elected a Socialist government. Felipe Gonzalez, at forty, became the youngest prime minister in Europe. The Socialist landslide victory brought them an absolute majority in the Cortes, the Spanish legislature, and responsibility for solving Spain's grave economic troubles.

    A nine-month balance sheet on the Socialist government reveals a cautious, reformist approach at home combined with some far-ranging diplomatic probes abroad. Longterm prospects for success in either arena are not particularly good, but the past year has shown that the effort will be worth watching.

Reviews

Page 6 of 13