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“Somehow This Madness Must Cease.”
Revisiting MLK Jr.’s sermon against the Vietnam War.
by
Christopher Lydon
via
Literary Hub
on
April 8, 2022
Declaring War
Congress hasn't declared it often. The U.S. has fought a lot of war anyway. How?
by
William Hogeland
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Hogeland's Bad History
on
March 2, 2022
There Is More War in the Classroom Than You Think
Hitchcock and Herwig discuss their findings on the teaching of war in higher education.
by
William I. Hitchcock
,
Meghan Herwig
via
War on the Rocks
on
September 7, 2021
When the World Tried to Outlaw War
What, if anything, can we learn from the 1928 Paris Peace Pact?
by
Stephen Wertheim
via
The Nation
on
November 8, 2018
The Unintended Consequences of Veterans' Day
In hindsight: A day created to commemorate peace has been transformed into one that perpetuates war.
by
Paul Steege
via
Hindsights
on
November 10, 2017
A People’s Obituary of Henry Kissinger
For decades, Kissinger kept the great wheel of American militarism spinning ever forward.
by
Greg Grandin
via
The Nation
on
November 30, 2023
America’s Most Dangerous Anti-Jewish Propagandist
Making sense of anti-Semitism today requires examining Henry Ford’s outsize part in its origins.
by
Daniel Schulman
via
The Atlantic
on
November 7, 2023
Have We Learned Nothing?
The comparison between last weekend's Hamas attack and 9/11 is apt.
by
David Klion
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n+1
on
October 10, 2023
Should We Abandon the Idea That Cancer Is Something To ‘Fight’?
Is the century-old battle metaphor doing more harm than good to doctors and patients alike?
by
Elaine Schattner
via
Aeon
on
May 9, 2023
Blundering Into Baghdad
The right—and wrong—lessons of the Iraq War.
by
Hal Brands
via
Foreign Affairs
on
February 28, 2023
When History Becomes Precedent in the OLC
Official decisions about military intervention and executive power are often based on outdated historical interpretations.
by
Mary L. Dudziak
via
Balkinization
on
January 16, 2023
Uses & Abuses of Military History
On the value of the discipline and its applications.
by
Victor Davis Hanson
via
The New Criterion
on
December 23, 2022
How Would Crazy Horse See His Legacy?
Perhaps no Native American is more admired for military acumen than the Lakota leader. But is that how he wanted to be remembered?
by
Pekka Hämäläinen
via
Smithsonian
on
November 2, 2022
Monuments with Mission Creep
On “all wars” memorials.
by
Andrew M. Shanken
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
October 26, 2022
Riding with Du Bois
Railroads—in the Jim Crow South just as in today’s Ukraine—employ physical infrastructure to create racial divisions.
by
Manu Karuka
via
Public Books
on
October 18, 2022
The View from Here
Fifty years on, Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph, “Napalm Girl,” still has the power to shock. But can a picture change the world?
by
Errol Morris
via
Air Mail
on
June 4, 2022
Politics and the Price Level
On inflation, institutions, and the governance of the price level.
by
Andrew Yamakawa Elrod
via
Phenomenal World
on
May 19, 2022
The Forgotten Crime of War Itself
A new book argues that efforts to humanize war with smarter weaponry have obscured the task of making peace the first goal of foreign policy.
by
Jackson Lears
via
New York Review of Books
on
March 31, 2022
Lasting Cruelties
A new book situates the War on Terror as a story of domination which traces back to the founding of the US as a settler-colonial and slaveholding behemoth.
by
Lyle Jeremy Rubin
via
Dissent
on
March 30, 2022
Why We Should Read Hannah Arendt Now
"The Origins of Totalitarianism" has much to say about a world of rising authoritarianism.
by
Anne Applebaum
via
The Atlantic
on
March 17, 2022
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