Daniel Berrigan, S.J., went from a poet to an activist, and turned activism into poetry.

This is a book about war, about inhumane acts, about personal and institutional instincts of self-preservation.

The Great War had a tincture of tragic elegy.... World War II, by contrast, was thoroughly modern, disengaged from any romantic past.

Mogadishu was rocked to its core on Oct. 14 by a truck bombing that left 358 dead and hundreds wounded. The missing are still being sifted for among the scorched rubble.

The president’s threats, according to the statement, “have brought the world to the brink of a nuclear catastrophe and have intensified global insecurity.”

The Nobel committee honored ICAN for its efforts to achieve a prohibition of nuclear weapons under international law through the U.N.