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In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated 27 January as Holocaust Remembrance Day. A resolution rejected Holocaust denial, together with all manifestations of religious intolerance or violence based on ethnicity or belief.
Today, Hungary is a country as free as Australia. But 50 years ago—on 23 October 1956—Hungarian students rebelled and issued a manifesto demanding free elections. The Soviets reacted ruthlessly.
In the Providence Journal, chief political columnist M. Charles Bakst notes that in the Democratic state of Rhode Island, "Bush" is just short of a swear word. The New York Times condemns the Detainee legislation in an editorial headed “Rushing Off a Cliff”. It doesn’t spare the Democrats either.
We have to take racism seriously, says Anthony Ham.
The United States will probably complete its war against Iraq with its military clout enhanced, its diplomatic clout reduced, and its place in the world less secure.
Will America take over the world? Not necessarily, says David Glanz.
Hugh Dillon on Simone Weil and George Orwell
European allegiances have been tested by the conflict in Iraq.
The following essays by Morag Fraser and John Schumann are edited addresses from the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series held in February–March 2005.
The siege at Beslan drew the world’s attention to a long and bloody conflict
Dorothy Horsfield visits the fastest growing Jewish community in Europe
Hugh Dillon unravels the challenges of justice in Guantanamo Bay.
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