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“The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming”

It’s hardly a secret, but, for a land that bills itself as a land of freedom and opportunity, America can be inhospitable to just about anyone.

by Olivia Rutigliano via Public Books on March 12, 2020

Superman comic illustration

Why Superheroes Are the Shape of Tech Things to Come

Superman et al were invented amid feverish eugenic speculation: what does the superhero craze say about our own times?

by Iwan Rhys Morus via Aeon on March 5, 2020

The Tyranny of the Minority, from Iowa Caucus to Electoral College

The problem of minority rule isn’t Trumpian or temporary; it’s bipartisan and enduring.

by Corey Robin via New York Review of Books on February 21, 2020

Statue of John Winthrop

"City on a Hill" and the Making of an American Origin Story

A now-famous Puritan sermon was nothing special in its own day.

by Abram C. Van Engen via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on February 18, 2020

Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: ‘De Gaulle Thinks He’s Joan of Arc’

A day-by-day account of the historic summit in Yalta, seventy-five years later.

by Diana Preston via Literary Hub on February 4, 2020

Photo of Richard Holsbrook on an abstract paint background.

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

After serving in Vietnam, Richard Holbrooke became a proponent of soft power. He would then contribute greatly to American foreign policy.

by Samuel Moyn via London Review of Books on January 27, 2020

Can Historical Analysis Help Reduce Military Deaths by Suicide?

A longer look reveals interesting patterns and may clarify what is driving a rise in suicides.

by Jeffrey Allen Smith, Michael Doidge, Ryan Hanoa, B. Christopher Frueh via Made By History on January 17, 2020

How Educators Are Rethinking The Way They Teach Immigration History

At Boston Latin School teachers are changing the way they prepare their students to think critically about immigration policy.

by Anna-Cat Brigida via YES! on January 9, 2020

Rambo Politics from Reagan to Trump

Trump links the assassination of Iranian General Soleimani to the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, positioning himself as Rambo, avenging American humiliation abroad.

by Bonnie Honig via Boston Review on January 6, 2020

The Histories Hidden in the Periodic Table

From poisoned monks and nuclear bombs to the “transfermium wars,” mapping the atomic world hasn’t been easy.

by Neima Jahromi via The New Yorker on December 27, 2019

Portrait photograph of Daniel Bell sitting on a chair

The Homeless Radical

Daniel Bell was the prophet of a failed centrism. By the end of his life, he was revisiting the leftism of his youth.

by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Jacob Hamburger via Jewish Currents on December 23, 2019

The Infinity War

We say we’re a peaceful nation. Why do our leaders always keep us at war?

by Samuel Moyn, Stephen Wertheim via Washington Post on December 13, 2019

The New China Scare

Why America shouldn’t panic about its latest challenger.

by Fareed Zakaria via Foreign Affairs on December 9, 2019

Enough Toxic Militarism

Decades of militarization in U.S. foreign policy have fueled violence at every level of American society.

by Nikhil Pal Singh via Quincy Institute for Responsible State Craft on December 4, 2019

John Wheeler’s H-bomb Blues

In 1953, as a political battle raged over the US’s nuclear future, the physicist lost a classified document on an overnight train from Philadelphia to DC.

by Alex Wellerstein via Physics Today on December 1, 2019

Mikhail Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut Thanksgiving Miracle

In 1997, the former Soviet leader needed money, and Pizza Hut needed a spokesman. Greatness ensued.

by Paul Musgrave via Foreign Policy on November 28, 2019

How the U.S. Betrayed the Marshall Islands, Kindling the Next Nuclear Disaster

A close look at the consequences of nuclear testing.

by Susanne Rust via Los Angeles Times on November 10, 2019

Disinfo Redux

Wherever there has been power, there has been a struggle for narrative control.

by Laura Thorne via Columbia Journalism Review on November 1, 2019

The United States Overthrew Iran’s Last Democratic Leader

Archival records make clear that the U.S. government was the key actor in the 1953 coup that ousted Mohammad Mosaddeq—not the Iranian clergy.

by Roham Alvandi via Foreign Policy on October 30, 2019

Pornotopia

In the mid-20th century, Playboy wasn't just an erotic magazine. It was an architectural movement as well.

by Paul B. Preciado via Public Books on October 11, 2019

Whose Apollo Are We Talking About?

A review of Roger D. Launius's "Apollo’s Legacy" and Teasel E. Muir-Harmony's "Apollo to the Moon."

by Asif Siddiqi via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 28, 2019

Inventing the Environment

A review of two new books on the postwar origins of “the Environment.”

by Carolyn Taratko via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 15, 2019

Nashville Contra Jaws, 1975

In their time, “Jaws” and “Nashville” were regarded as Watergate films, and both were in production as the Watergate disaster played its final act.

by J. Hoberman via Longreads on August 7, 2019

People dancing at Woodstock

When Science Was Groovy

Counterculture-inspired research flourished in the Age of Aquarius.

by W. Patrick McCray, David I. Kaiser via Science on August 5, 2019

White Power

A review of two recent books about white paramilitarism in the wake of the Cold War.

by Thomas Meaney via London Review of Books on August 1, 2019

Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface with flag during Apollo 11.

How Stanley Kubrick Staged the Moon Landing

To understand America, you can start with Apollo 11 and all that is counterfactual that’s grown around it.

by Rich Cohen via The Paris Review on July 18, 2019

Congressional Action on Yemen May Be the First Salvo Against Presidential War Powers

President Trump’s skirting around Congress to sell arms to Saudi Arabia is only the latest example of presidential overreach.

by R. Joseph Parrott via The Conversation on May 29, 2019

The Making of the Military-Intellectual Complex

Why is U.S. foreign policy dominated by an unelected, often reckless cohort of “the best and the brightest”?

by Daniel Bessner via The New Republic on May 29, 2019

When Good Scientists Go Bad

Science doesn’t make you magically objective, and it’s not separate from the rest of human experience.

by Maki Naro, Matthew Francis via The Nib on May 15, 2019

A Hundred Years of Solidarity

If we want to fight capitalism, the US left has to figure out how to confront US empire.

by Hilary Goodfriend via Jacobin on April 27, 2019

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