Stories by Jonathan Schell
Jonathan Schell is the Nation Institute's Harold Willens Peace Fellow. The Jonathan Schell Reader was recently published by Nation Books.
As is true of so many adversaries, the nuclear haves and have-nots share more in common with each other than with other nations: They both want nuclear weapons.
Posted on May 5, 2005
How did a decidedly popular election occur under the auspices of a decidedly unpopular occupation?
Posted on Feb 10, 2005
Why, when human need is the greatest, should the human response always be left to whim?
Posted on Jan 6, 2005
The U.S. strategy is now focused entirely on inspiring fear in the minds of Iraqis. To hell with winning their hearts.
Posted on Nov 20, 2004
Once we accept that this war has been a terrible mistake, then we have no choice but to withdraw immediately.
Posted on Sep 25, 2004
Is the United States then a globe-straddling empire? Not just yet – and maybe never.
Posted on Aug 23, 2004
The great majority of Democratic voters ardently oppose the war, yet the party has made what appears to be a tactical decision to hide its faith.
Posted on Jul 31, 2004
High-powered word-torturers such as President Bush want us to believe that the word "relationship" can be stretched to cover relations of hostility and rejection. But that doesn't change the facts.
Posted on Jun 24, 2004
Kerry is stuck between politics and truth. After all, it is Kerry's bravery as a soldier fighting the mistaken war, not his bravery as a veteran opposing it, that helps him in his bid for the presidency.
Posted on Apr 22, 2004
On June 30, the Bush administration intends to turn over something to someone in Iraq, but no one can quite define what that will be. It's certainly not sovereignty, by any definition.
Posted on Apr 9, 2004
With its doctrine of 'preventive war,' the Bush administration has loosed a principle of brute force on the world. As the first anniversary of the Iraq War approaches, the full costs of the Bush Doctrine are truly being felt.
Posted on Mar 12, 2004
Relinquishing the fantasy of a victory in Iraq is the true moral mission of our time.
Posted on Sep 5, 2003
Three anti-nuclear activists issue an urgent appeal calling on the U.S. to commit itself to the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Posted on Jun 10, 2002
In the age of international criminal courts, human rights and apologies, even the U.S. can't ignore atrocities committed in Vietnam.
Posted on May 8, 2001
