Jonathan Schell

Peace and Disarmament Correspondent

Jonathan Schell (1943-2014) was the Lannan Fellow at The Nation Institute. His books include The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence and the Will of the People, an analysis of people power, and The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger.

Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero

Robert Kaplan is a hugely well-informed, indefatigable journalist who combines firsthand reporting, mostly from poor, badly governed or ungoverned countries, with wide reading ...

Jun 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell

Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero

It is notoriously difficult to prove a negative. At what point can you be sure that something does not in fact exist?

Jun 12, 2003 / Jonathan Schell

Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero

Read special extracts from Jonathan Schell's new book, The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and The Will of the People.

Jun 5, 2003 / Jonathan Schell

Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero

During the cold war, nuclear strategic doctrine was riven by a fundamental contradiction.

May 15, 2003 / Jonathan Schell

Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero

In this space last week, I commented that the choice for the United States in North Korea was probably between a catastrophic war and permitting North Korea to keep its nuclear...

May 8, 2003 / Jonathan Schell

The Unconquerable World The Unconquerable World

Violence, Hannah Arendt said, destroys power. The United States is moving quickly down this path.

May 6, 2003 / Feature / Jonathan Schell

Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero

Now that the regime of Saddam Hussein has been overthrown, the Bush Administration, like a submarine that, having successfully sunk one ship, resurfaces its periscope to find o...

May 1, 2003 / Jonathan Schell

Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero

In Baghdad this week, one Mohammed Mohsen Zubaidi, an Iraqi businessman with ties to the Iraqi National Congress, has shown up claiming to be the city's governor.

Apr 24, 2003 / Jonathan Schell

Letter from Ground Zero Letter from Ground Zero

In the past 200 years, all of the earth's great territorial empires, whether dynastic or colonial, or both, have been destroyed. The list includes the Russian empire of the cza...

Apr 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell

Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero

A Vesuvius of violence has erupted from the dead center of American life, the executive branch of the government.

Apr 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell

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