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Financing Salvation in Late Antiquity
Review of The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity, by Peter Brown (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2015.)
The Bible as a Political Tool
… a set of empty and banal cliches, divorced from context and meaning, ready to be deployed at will. Moore is simply the …
Clashing Shades of Red
Review of The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World, by Lorenz M Luthi (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008)
From Karl Marx to Karl Rove: “Class Warfare” in American Politics
… past, and as more Americans identify with class issues, the meanings of the term "class warfare" have become even more …
Aerial Torpedoes, Buzz Bombs, and Predators: The Long Cultural History of Drones
… and cents. I only know that it’s very, very large.” Though plagued with malfunctions, over 2,400 German UAVs under … strikes on Tokyo would teach “Japanese civilians [the] meaning of total war.” By 1945, indiscriminate drone strikes … to develop drones (fearing V-1 attacks on Moscow) was plagued with setbacks and not viable until 1952. Yet Soviet …
Episodes of Ambivalent Empire
Review of “Our Hemisphere”? The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the Twenty-First Century by : Britta H. Crandall and Russell C. Crandall (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021)
… convey a certain ambiguity about the consequences and meaning of U.S. power in the Western Hemisphere. The …
The Imperial Presidency Pushes Back
Review of Iran Contra: Reagan’s Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power, by Malcolm Byrne (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2014)
