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It sounds nice. Until we begin to name names. Adolf Hitler, Jozef Stalin, Pol Pot, Osama Bin Laden. These are monsters. To suggest that God loves them is to sentimentalise God, and to remove any firm basis for morality.
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.
Winston Churchill is usually portrayed as one of the few people who recognised the evil potential of Adolf Hitler and was willing to go to war to stop him.
George Orwell’s take on language has an increasing contemporary relevance
We would normally expect outrage at this combination of evil doing and mendacity. Instead we find indifference.
Hugh Dillon on Simone Weil and George Orwell
A new Australian film examines the powerful role of poetry in times of oppression.
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
Hugh Dillon unravels the challenges of justice in Guantanamo Bay.
Brian Matthews has words with Julian Burnside’s Word Watching, and Don Watson’s Weasel Words.
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