Welcome to Holland: the Changing Nature of Life
by Tracy Jamison* Do you welcome change? Dr. Jane Barton began by querying the audience on their acceptance of the inevitable. We are all human and were born with a terminal illness: Life. So how does the average person see change and how does that affect the quality of their coping skills. As a hospice chaplain […]
An American’s View of NPT, From Vienna
by Linda M. Richards* May 1 is a real Worker’s holiday all over Austria, so today the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) was closed and there were no official NPT Preparatory Committee meetings. The NPT is the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Almost all the shops and businesses are closed, except for restaurants […]
Radical Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the Intellectual Historian’s Contribution
by Mason Tattersall* Dr. Jonathan Israel’s April 26 talk at Oregon State, “Radical Enlightenment and the French Revolution,” presented the key figures in the early (1789-93) stage of the Revolution as proponents of what Israel terms the Radical Enlightenment. Contrary to some accounts Israel characterizes the rise of Robespierre and the Reign of Terror not […]
