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This article appeared in the December 5, 2005 edition of The Nation.

November 17, 2005

THE MAORI STILL FIGHT FOR JUSTICE

Somerville, Mass.

Anatol Lieven ["Frontier Injustice," Oct. 31] paints a totally different view of the Maori from that of many New Zealand historians (Ranganui Walker, Struggle Without End; Alan Ward, Unsettled History; Claudia Orange, An Illustrated History of the Waitangi Treaty; Michael King, Being Pakeha Now).

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About Anatol Lieven

Anatol Lieven, chair of international relations and terrorism studies at King’s College, London, is a senior research fellow of the New America Foundation, in Washington. His latest book, written with John Hulsman, is Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World (Pantheon). more...

About Arthur C. Danto

The Nation's art critic since 1984, Arthur Danto is also Columbia University's Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy. His numerous book credits include the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award winner Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present and The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World (2000). more...

About Russell Jacoby

Russell Jacoby, a professor of history at UCLA, is the author of The Last Intellectuals, Dialectic of Defeat and other works. His new book, Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age, has just been published by Columbia University Press. more...

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