Rex Smith: Can we cope with today’s world crises?
The war that erupted in Europe a century ago this summer was seen by its survivors as the most calamitous conflict in history. The death of more than 16 million people, the economic collapse of entire...
View ArticleRex Smith: Consequence in lying, and its absence
Just to be clear, I have never come under fire in a war zone. Once, when I was briefly reporting from El Salvador during the civil war there, a soldier was shot dead on a crowded street just across...
View ArticleRex Smith: Obscurity a consequence of the truth
Beyond a triumph of justice over racism, which it surely was, the award of the Medal of Honor to Albany’s Henry Johnson this week shows us another human dynamic at work, and it applies to much of...
View ArticleRex Smith: What lessons do we teach, beyond fear?
How much more secure our world would be if what I was taught as a child about America’s role in the world had turned out to be true. And how much more secure our children’s future would be if we...
View ArticleRex Smith: Ring again, clarion call to freedoms
Blame John F. Kennedy for spoiling us for ever again appreciating a presidential speech. Nobody can top his inaugural address – its rhythmic pulse, its call to service of a younger generation, its...
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