So you think you know about Lidice?

By Dr. Josef A. Mestenhauser Most of us know that the entire village was leveled, that men and boys over 15 years were executed, that women and children were send to concentration camps, and that children were separated from parents. The brutality of this “event” far...

A Civil Society: Idea of the Century or a Bust?

By Dr. Josef A. Mestenhauser I was introduced to the concept of the Civil Society during my sabbatical leave in the Philippines in the late sixties where I studied leadership and organizations in the context of social and cultural change. In travels throughout the...