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WHERE DO WE COME FROM?
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic. 3/1/2012, Vol. 243 Issue 3, p28-32. 5p.
Abstract: A literary criticism of the book "Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750-1790," by Jonathan I. Israel is presented. It outlines the Enlightenment period of history and discusses the work of author Peter Gay and his int...
The Attack on Human Rights.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic; 8/11/47, Vol. 117 Issue 6, p14-15, 2p
Abstract: Argues that current methods of fighting communism and socialism could undermine the standard for human rights and civil liberties in the U.S. Situations that demonstrate the peril facing human rights in the country; Assessment of the impact of the fede...
The Human Right to a Job.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic; 11/5/77, Vol. 177 Issue 19, p2-38, 2p
Abstract: Focuses on human rights in general and rights to work in particular in the United States. Report that 50 percent black teenage joblessness continues; View that the country has been edging toward a more specific declaration of economic rights for citize...
CORRESPONDENCE.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic; 11/30/98, Vol. 219 Issue 22, p4-61, 4p
Abstract: Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues of the journal "The New Republic." Problem associated with traditional intelligence tests; Issues concerning Amnesty International's campaign against human rig...
Pitfalls of Morality.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic; 10/29/77, Vol. 177 Issue 18, p13-15, 3p
Abstract: Presents information regarding the issues which cropped up in the European security conference review of Helsinki accords. Issue of human rights between the Soviet Union and the U.S.; Views expressed by the U.S. that if the Soviet Union didn't take Hel...
Ginzburg in Exile.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic; 5/12/79, Vol. 180 Issue 19, p14-17, 3p
Abstract: Presents an interview with Soviet human rights advocate Alexander Ginzburg, who went on exile after having spent nine years in Soviet Union prisons. Retention of his human dignity and sense of humor; Banishment and exile as forms of Soviet punishment; ...
NOTES ON STONEWALL. (cover story)
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic; 6/13/94, Vol. 210 Issue 24, p24-30, 5p, 1 Black and White Photograph
Abstract: Discusses the gay rights movement at the Stonewall bar in Greenwich Village. Description of the argument among gay leaders about the planning of Stonewall 25; Practice of Stonewall of indiscriminately linking the movement for gay equal rights with ay l...
THE KILLING OF CAMBODIA.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic; 11/15/82, Vol. 187 Issue 20, p17-21, 5p
Abstract: Presents information on political leader Pol Pot's brutality in Cambodia. Number of people who died at the hands of Pol Pot; Opinion that evidence about Pol Pot's brutalities continued to be shrouded in polemic and rationalization; Reference to the sur...
THE POWER OF A DECLARATION.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic. 2/4/2009, Vol. 240 Issue 1, p30-32. 3p.
Abstract: The article discusses the 1948 adaption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the General Assembly of the United Nations, and how the concept of human rights changed with the release of this document. The author describes the provisions of th...
Mr. Hughes Finds an Issue.
Publication Type: Periodical
Source(s): New Republic; 11/4/16, Vol. 9 Issue 105, p5-7, 3p
Abstract: Editorial. Comments on the principles of Charles Evans Hughes regarding Mexico; Proposal by Hughes to avoid international affairs that exclude U.S. concerns, respect the rights of small nations and provide protection to the lives and property of Americ...