Sixty years since the end of World War II is two generations. And two generations is long enough to measure whether there has been a substantial change in direction in how mankind orders its affairs. It is clear that it has. Not just in matters of war and peace- there has not been a Third World War- but in its attitude to poverty, economic progress, human rights, its habitat and its relationship to the other sex and its offspring. In all there have been great strides forward that at the time of the ending of the war seemed barely conceivable. "Conundrums of Humanity" poses eleven questions...
Sixty years since the end of World War II is two generations. And two generations is long enough to measure whether there has been a substantial chang...
William Pfaf, often said to be America's leading commentator on foreign affairs, wrote in a review of "Conundrums of Humanity" in "Prospect" magazine, "When Jonathan Power told a friend that the book he was writing was meant to solve 11 of the most formidable contemporary threats to peace and human rights, the friend replied that Power must be bidding for the Nobel prize. George Bernard Shaw once said that all progress depends on the unreasonable man. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world as it is, but the unreasonable man is determined to change it. This book is filled with reason,...
William Pfaf, often said to be America's leading commentator on foreign affairs, wrote in a review of "Conundrums of Humanity" in "Prospect" magazine,...
