Inroads: A Journal of Opinion articles

Recent articles from Inroads: A Journal of Opinion

Introducing Inroads 23.
June 22, 2008... Inroads has become a quarterly. Well, sort of. Feeling that six months between issues is too long, in March we put together a 34-page package that we made available only through email and our website. Its main feature was an exchange on Pakistan between Doug McArthur, whose article on...

The return of God--and what to do about it.(OPINION)(Essay)
June 22, 2008... Who would have thought that the new millennium would begin with jihads, holy wars, fatwas, inquisitions and slaughter of the innocents in the name of God? Almost four centuries since the Catholic Church condemned Galileo for heresy; a century and a half after Darwin's Origin of Species,...

Trust on a street corner, approaching midnight.(OPINION)
June 22, 2008... A few blocks north and slightly to the east of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., there is a post office. Around a quarter to midnight on April 15 this year, I happened to be walking by (don't ask why). One thing, then another, grabbed my attention. The first was that traffic was heavy as I...

Did the Israel lobby kill Rachel Carrie?(OPINION)
June 22, 2008... Rachel Corrie, an idealistic 23-year-old American from Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death by a bulldozer driven by an Israeli soldier in Gaza on March 16, 2003. She was protesting collective punishment and the destruction of Palestinian homes. British actor Alan Rickman and Guardian...

Polygamy, impunity and human rights.(OPINION)
June 22, 2008... Polygamy has been illegal in Canada since 1890. It was criminalized soon after Charles O. Card, a fugitive escaping prosecution in Utah for having more than one wife, settled in Alberta. Card and several senior members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints went to Ottawa to...