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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)
The Cossacks, Ukraine’s Paradigmatic Warriors
… sovereignty. The term Cossack comes from a Turkish word meaning “free man.” Their origins are disputed, but most …
The Assassin’s Shadow: The Beginning of World War I and the Legacy of Gavrilo Princip
On June 28, 1914, one event changed the world.
… interpretations and ideological positions that coopted the meaning of his short life over the following century. The …
Weathering the Storm: Wartime Lives of Ordinary People
Review of An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler, by Peter Fritzsche (New York: Basic Books, 2016)
… An Iron Wind is about the struggle of civilians to find meaning in the violence, but also in their own actions or …
The Nobel Committee Speaks to America
… this award twenty-four years later takes on a special meaning, as comparisons with previous American winners show. …
Six Days That Shook The World
Review of The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East, by Guy Laron (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017)
Down and Out (Again): America’s Long Struggle with Mass Unemployment
… federal programs left millions of Americans without meaningful aid. In the final year of his presidency, Hoover … championed such extensions during the deep recession that plagued his early years in office. Reagan is usually …
He Led His People Into the Desert
Review of Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012)
Bringing Evil to Justice
Review of All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals, by David Scheffer (NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012)
