We may think slavery is a problem in the rear-view mirror, but in fact millions of people wake up each day to a life of forced labor, violence, sexual assault, and dehumanization.
My husband and I recently finished watching Ken Burns’ latest documentary “The Vietnam War.” We learned so much, discovering previously unknown facts of both military and political history, and finally, we were both incredibly moved by this powerful film.
In bringing about such mighty shifts in our manner of public and private trafficking, the internet presents our churches, religious communities, faiths and all of us with a magnificent if problematic gift. For here in one package which can seem as big as the world and as intangible as nothingness, lies the greatest threat and the greatest opportunity that the churches have seen for 500 years.
Benjamin Wittes, cochair of the Hoover Institution's Working Group on National Security, Technology, and Law, joined author Susan Landau, author of Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age, for a book discussion.
At an awards ceremony in central London on Monday night (October 30), the British Academy presented the historian, author and journalist Timothy Garton Ash with the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.
