Jonathan Schell is a Fellow at The Nation Institute and is a visiting fellow at Yale University. He is the author of The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger.
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Jonathan Schell
Commentaries by Jonathan Schell
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Mitt Romney’s Reality Check
NEW YORK – There is a kind of war underway in the United States nowadays between fact and fantasy. President Barack Obama’s re-election mark…
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The New Obama
NEW YORK – After the second debate between US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, Obama’s supporters chorused…
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Disarmament Wars
NEW YORK – On April 13, Iran is scheduled meet with representatives of China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States – th…
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The Fall of the House of Murdoch
NEW YORK – During the four decades since the Watergate affair engulfed US President Richard Nixon, politicians have repeatedly ignored the s…
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The Protocols of Rupert Murdoch
NEW YORK – Whenever I hear people on America’s Republican right call themselves “conservative,” I experience the mental equivalent of a slig…
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Obama’s Vietnam Syndrome
NEW HAVEN – There can be no military resolution to the war in Afghanistan, only a political one. Writing that sentence almost makes me faint…
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Remembering Robert McNamara
NEW YORK – I first met Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defense who presided over the American buildup in Vietnam, in the summer of 1967…
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Iran’s Less-is-More Nuclear Policy
NEW YORK – The recent United States National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which reports that Iran once had a “nuclear weapons program” but s…
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Kosovo's Constitutional Fiction
PRISTINA, KOSOVO: One year after NATO's war over Kosovo, renewal is to be seen everywhere: in reconstructed houses; in the many shops opened…
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The Nuclear Beast Reborn
NEW YORK: Rejection by the US Senate of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was a torpedo aimed at the fragile global nuclear arms con…
Mitt Romney’s Reality Check
james durante: There are many levels of delusional thinking that comprise the cultural heart of "civilization," the very thing Schell seems so desperate to save. There is the idea that you can somehow square the rel…
Mitt Romney’s Reality Check
jack lasersohn: You might consider that if a population is lied to often enough, it begins to distrust all historic sources of authority, and is easily preyed upon by charlatans. Since you have focused on the li…