Understanding Society

Image: Holocaust memorial at Camp Westerbork, The Netherland s Each of the great evils of the twentieth century -- the Holocaust, the Holodo...

Theodor Adorno wrote that “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric." But there are good reasons not to agree with Adorno. There is ...

Image: Viktor Frankl Image: Varlam Shalamov, NKVD photo Viktor Frankl, born in Austria in 1905, had the tragic misfortune to be swept up int...

When in 2007 Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko designated Roman Shukhevych as a Hero of Ukraine, he brought new heat into the debate in ...

One of the consequential puzzles of the Second World War was the sudden, catastrophic collapse of the French army following German invasion ...

Many organizations express the goal of embracing diversity and inclusiveness. This is an admirable goal, but it is often only weakly pursued...

Ukraine was quickly and violently occupied by the Nazi military in 1941 in the onset of Hitler's Barbarossa plan for defeat of the Sovie...