New World Order New World Order
As I write, the world is filled with fear. I am having one of those reactions that psychologists describe as a stress response. I suppose I'm not alone, though. A friend calls an...
Oct 11, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Fate and Fundamentalism Fate and Fundamentalism
The distinguishing feature of most fundamentalist belief systems is a literal conception of the relation between words and meaning.
Oct 9, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Paradise Lost Paradise Lost
Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquisht, rolling in the fiery Gulf Confounde...
Sep 27, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Pax Americana Pax Americana
Although the terrorist attacks are—and will continue to be for some time—at the forefront of the world's attention, we must remember that the struggles of yesterday...
Sep 13, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
We Are the World We Are the World
At 5 o'clock in the morning, the radio alarm begins to blare the news. The United States is threatening to pull out of the World Conference Against Racism if the conversati...
Aug 23, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Aren’t We Happy Yet? Aren’t We Happy Yet?
There was a short note in the New York Times a few months ago reporting that Governor Jeb Bush wept while speaking to the Southern Regional Conference of the National Baptist Con...
Jul 27, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Beyond the Village Pale Beyond the Village Pale
The United States has one of the highest rates of intrafamilial violence of any nation in the world. As a statistical composite, we Americans are a nation of grieving adults and ...
Jun 28, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
No Vengeance, No Justice No Vengeance, No Justice
Now that Timothy McVeigh has been executed, I suppose we're all supposed to stop talking about it--to "enjoy closure," a bit like the election. But McVeigh's execution wa...
Jun 14, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Bosco’s Big! Best! Believe It or Not! Bosco’s Big! Best! Believe It or Not!
Bosco, a black labrador retriever owned by Tim Stillman of Sunol, a small community near San Francisco, has been Mayor there for over eight years--after getting more votes than t...
May 31, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The First 2,920 Days The First 2,920 Days
I was driving my son to soccer practice not long ago, listening to a National Public Radio wrap-up of President Bush's first hundred days in office. My son, who was just a baby w...
May 17, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams