Person

Richard Beck

Bylines

I Will Give Thee Madonna

Kevin Cook and Jeff Guinn on David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and the 1993 siege of Waco.

by Richard Beck via London Review of Books on March 15, 2024
We Used to Run This Country

Iran and surplus imperialism.

by Richard Beck via n+1 on June 22, 2020
I Guess I’m About to Do a Highly Immoral Thing

On "The Vietnam War."

by Richard Beck via n+1 on December 1, 2017
The Origin of Endless War

On Barbara Lee and the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.

by Richard Beck via n+1 on August 11, 2017
Why Are We in the Middle East?

America’s devotion to the Middle East did not make much sense in 2003, Bacevich argues; but it did in 1980, and the reason was oil.

by Richard Beck via n+1 on July 29, 2016

Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life

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World Trade Center towers burning on 9/11.

The Righteous Community: Legacies of the War on Terror

A new book traces how "the wet dream of an ageing militarist has become a fundamental force driving American foreign policy."

by Jackson Lears via London Review of Books on July 24, 2025

Twin towers missing; twin towers visible with surroundings missing.

How the War on Terror Warped the American Left

A new book on how 9/11 altered the national psyche also demonstrates how it stunted progressive politics.

by Gal Beckerman via The Atlantic on September 10, 2024

Reflections in a store window of people watching the 9/11 attack on television.

The World That September 11 Made

Richard Beck’s “Homeland” traces the far-reaching aftereffects of the attacks and tries to recover the events of the day, as they happened.

by Ed Burmila via The New Republic on September 9, 2024

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