Public Justice Report

The Public Justice Report is an online quarterly magazine for policy makers, educators, and all those interested in thinking carefully and critically about politics and government. The report covers both domestic and international affairs and regularly features book reviews and announcements. Publication began in 1977 as the Public Justice Newsletter. In 1980 the name was changed to the Public Justice Report; in 2005 it became on online publication. (Print publication ISSN 0742-5325; online publication ISSN 1554-0480.)
 

Archive (Chronological)

May 1989-Dec. 2007 (online index)

Oct. 1988-Sep. 1989 (PDF)
Oct. 1987-Sep. 1988 (PDF)
Oct. 1977-Sep. 1987 (PDF)
 

Archive (Topical)

May 1989-Dec. 2007 (online index)
 

Current Issue: Fourth Quarter 2007  

THE DARFUR TRAGEDY AND A MEDICAL EDUCATOR’S VIEW OF AFRICA
James Skillen updates the continuing crisis in Darfur, Sudan, drawing on his interview with Dr. Glenn Geelhoed, a surgeon, tropical-disease expert, and medical educator at George Washington University. Geelhoed has taken medical students to almost every country in Africa and has keen insights into life and death in Darfur and beyond.

PAKISTAN: A FALTERING ALLY?
Steven E. Meyer, a professor at National Defense University and a visiting Fellow at the Center for Public Justice in 2006-2007, raises important questions about American dependence on Pakistan’s president, Perez Musharraf. The Bush administration’s idealism about advancing democracy throughout the world does not square with its actual, realistic practice of supporting the un-democratic leader of Pakistan and the authoritarian regimes of Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Now the U.S. is in a bind.

EUROPE IS THE FUTURE, AMERICA THE PAST
Francis Woehrling served for a decade in Washington at the International Monetary Fund and then for nearly two decades in Brussels as an economist for the European Commission’s monetary directorate. A European from Alsace who married an American and pursued graduate study at Michigan State University, Woehrling offers a unique perspective on where Europe and America are headed today.

MEYER ON THE KOSOVO DEADLINE
Steven E. Meyer, introduced above, is an expert on the Balkan region of Europe. His recent article published in the National Interest online is introduced here by the Public Justice Report’s editor. Kosovo, officially a province of Serbia, has been under UN governance since 1999, when NATO troops defeated Slobodan Milosevic’s ethnic cleansing operations there. The largely Albanian ethnic population of Kosovo wants independence; Serbia does not want to give up its claim to the province. Diplomatic efforts to overcome the divide are to be completed by December 10. Meyer argues for a way forward.

SECURITY AND DEFENSE: GUIDELINE #7
Guidelines for Government and Citizenship  are being published by the Center for Public Justice, and seven of them were introduced in earlier issues of the Public Justice Report. Here is the Center’s guideline on security and defense, the eighth one to be introduced by the Report’s editor. All of the guidelines published thus far are available on the Center’s website, as are Skillen’s introductory essays published in past issues of the Report.

HARVARD TO STUDY MOSQUE CONTROVERSY
Palos Heights, Illinois, southwest of Chicago, has many churches and a Christian college. In 2000, the city’s Christian mayor, Dean Koldenhoven, was ready to allow Muslims to buy an old church building to establish a mosque. The town council voted him down.  But that unusual local battle over religious freedom and the First Amendment has drawn the attention of Harvard University’s Pluralism Project, which has turned the Palos Heights controversy into a case study for its students. Phil Kadner, a local journalist, tells the story.

CONVERSATIONS ON AMERICA'S FUTURE
As we approach the next presidential election, much is getting lost in the sound bytes and candidate posturing. From now until election day, the editor will be holding Conversations on America's Future in towns and halls around the country. Come to one near you or volunteer to host one to help us conclude the celebration of the Center's 30th anniversary.
 

Editorial Policy

The purpose of this publication is:
1. To foster and exhibit a coherent Christian point of view, grounded in the basic principles of the Center for Public Justice.
2. To promote the development of a Christian public philosophy.
3. To engage in biblical study as it relates to public life.
4. To evaluate accurately, sympathetically, yet critically all political organizations, initiatives, and policy proposals that go by the name "Christian."
5. To develop policy arguments that stem from our public philosophy.
6. To report on Christian-democratic movements and initiatives throughout the world, with the long-term goal of making this publication a unique and indispensable international organ.
7. To review books and publish interviews and letters that help advance any or all of the first six aims.

    EDITOR: James Skillen
    CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Stanley Carlson-Thies, Stephen Lazarus

    EDITORIAL ADVISERS, domestic affairs:
    Richard Baer, Cornell University
    Roy Clouser, College of New Jersey
    Clark Cochran, Texas Tech University
    Vernon J. Ehlers, Congressman (R-MI)
    Charles Glenn, Jr., Boston University
    William Gram-Reefer, Worldview BBS
    C. Everett Koop, Former U.S. Surgeon General
    Tracy Kuperus, Calvin College
    Michael LeRoy, Whitworth College
    Glenn Loury, Boston University
    Rockne McCarthy, Dordt College
    Bruce MacLaury, The Brookings Institution
    Stephen V. Monsma, Retired
    Corwin Smidt, Calvin College

    EDITORIAL ADVISERS, international affairs:
    Alice-Catherine Carls, Eastern Europe
    Bob Goudzwaard, The Netherlands
    David Koyzis, Canada
    Donald Kruse, Middle East
    Sidney Rooy, Latin America
    Bong Ho Son, Korea
    Alan Storkey, Great Britain
    Gideon Strauss, South Africa
    Amb. Clyde Taylor, Latin America
    Jon Visher, Japan
    Bruce Wearne, Australia