Word: abolitionism
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The party at the Washington Hilton last Friday night was a grand bash. Hundreds of guests mingled convivially, munching on fried chicken, hand-carved roast beef and ham. As the good spirit, and good spirits, flowed, the only odd note was the cause of the celebration: Government employees, past and...
Schell obviously understood this, and The Abolition hastily debunks much of what Schell, with much hoopla, put forth two years ago. In fact, the author, with customary hubris, goes so far as to quote his previous work as an example of a historic consensus: world government can be the only...
Perhaps, then, the best way to approach The Abolition is to forget that Schell ever wrote Late of the Earth. If Abolition were a laundry detergent, it would be labelled "all new and improved," and housewives and husbands in TV ads would be shown embracing the new product while blithely...
THE DELIBERATE POLICY" put forth in The Abolition in a nutshell, is to persuade all nations to destroy their nuclear weapons (zap!), while allowing and encouraging open deployment of defensive anti-nuclear weaponry. This defense--which would possibly include something along of President Reagan's oft-ridiculed "Star Wars" weapons...
The abolition agreement described here can be seen as a mere holding operation, giving us time in which these good qualities [of courage, trust, prudence, imagination, decency, and love] can be brought to bear on the vast political work that alone can lead to a true and fully satisfactory resolution...