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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Democracy with blood on its Hands: An Interview with Ariel Dorfman

  According to Ariel Dorfman, the central dilemma of our times is "how to make sure that, when grievous harm has been done to us, we do not turn into the monster who has given us such pain". Dorfman, a playwrite, novelist, and essayist of international renown discusses this, in the context of Pinochet's Chile, and our current 'war on terror'.

  
  
• Chronicling Catastrophes - an interview with Åsne Seierstad, journalist and author of The Bookseller of Kabul

  From her first assignments in Russia and Chechnya, Åsne Seierstad has chronicled some of the world's most dangerous conflicts, and has concentrated on the lives behind the fighting. She spoke to Berit Haugen Keyes about her bestselling book The Bookseller of Kabul, the conflicts she has seen, and her current and future projects.

  
  
• U2 and Me. Neil McCormick in Interview.

  Neil McCormick was always sure that fame and fortune awaited him. Possibly for his school mate, Paul Hewson, as well. In Bono's Doppelganger he tells the bittersweet story of having fame pass you by, while your mate becomes the biggest rock star on the planet. McCormick in interview with Berit Haugen Keyes.

  
  
• ''Bush and Kerry: Contrasting Styles with the Same Results''

  While the two American Presidential candidates square up to each other, the American electorate, and the world at large, question 'what are the differences between the two?'. Dr. Michael A. Weinstein of the PINR looks at their respective decisional styles.

  
  
• In Defence of a Liberal Education.

  Would we accept the foundation, with tax-payers money, of political schools? For example, a neo-conservative school here, or a communist school there, where pupils would be instructed uncritcally in a political ideology? Dr. Stephen Law, author of The War for Children's Minds, argues that we would not, and why, then, should we accept religious schools so readily?