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Cover of Mother of Invention by Robert I. Field

Government Fingers in the Health Care Jar?

Review of Mother of Invention: How the Government Created "Free Market Health Care", by Robert I. Field (Oxford University Press, 2013)
… idealized system of unfettered exchanges between buyers and sellers. There’s no room for the government in this faulty … up to this point: to pay for everything from hospital visits to prescriptions, one needs health insurance. Of the … that translates to the future of American health care comes in his final chapter. “Health care cannot function,” …
Minaret Islam Khoja in Khiva

A Postcard from Khiva, Uzbekistan

… history. The train stops in Urgench, a quiet and comparatively modern city of about 150,000 people. Exiting … fourth century B.C.E. Khorezmians were minting their early coins by the second century B.C.E. A century later the … Heritage City. Arabkhan madrasa, 1616. (Photo by author) Visitors are greeted with comfortable hotels, restaurants …

A New World Order? Africa and China

… On one hand, huge new markets have opened to American companies; on the other, Chinese producers have created … level in recent history. From 2000 to 2009, China also forgave poor African countries almost $3 billion in debt, … parts of northern and eastern African coasts. And the visit of the Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta to China in the …
pile of syringes

The Global War on Drugs

… Ohio State University Dr. Sarah Brady Siff , Drug Enforcement & Policy Center, Moritz College of Law; Ohio State … Professor of History and Director of the Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching, Ohio State University … apocalypse or Virgin of Guadalupe. I believe, ... it is no coincidence that the locations of native datura use on this …

Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal

… about a major project that his government had imagined for Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey—and Europe. It … It would be a "crazy project," as Erdogan and the public coined it. Turks imagined : Could it be a cultural center … on the Bosporus—a strait crowded not only with urban commuters and pleasure craft, but Russian oil tankers …
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, by Aaron Sachs Book Cover

The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism

Review of The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, by Aaron Sachs (Viking Books, 2006)
… Humboldt, Nevada. Humboldt, Iowa. Humboldt County, California. The Humboldt River. All these places, and … to honor a German naturalist who made exactly one brief visit to the United States early in the nineteenth century, but whose adventures and accomplishments were so much admired they made him an …

Who's not to Blame in the South Korea-Japan Spat?

… Korean President Moon Jae-in on August 2, 2019. “We have come this far today by overcoming countless hardships. Just … we will in fact turn adversities into opportunities to leap forward.” A casual observer of South Korea-Japan relations … Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. For a Japanese prime minister to visit the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where 14 …
A Jewish menorah, which is used during Hanukkah.

How Hanukkah Became the Jewish Christmas

… by stampeding to the shopping mall. It’s also a chance for purists to ruin the fun by insisting that Hanukkah has … been a minor Jewish festival. Yet this holiday — which commemorates the successful Israelite revolt in the second … including the newly secularized Christmas. “Santa Claus visited the East Side last night,” the New York Tribune …
A view of Cinicinnati in 1841. The waterways that brought cholera to the city feature prominently in this depiction.

Pandemic Redux: Revisiting Cincinnati’s 1849 Cholera in the Age of COVID-19

… December 25, 1848, brought an unwelcome gift to the Queen City. That Christmas Day, a dying man … pandemic reached Cincinnati 17 years earlier, saw no “cause for apprehension or anxiety … or any reason to suppose that … “Cincinnati is the city of pigs,” wrote English visitor Isabella Lucy Bird. “[S]wine lean, gaunt, and …
Sign that reads, "You are either affected or infected with HIV/AIDS."

HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future

… of HIV/AIDS  as a phenomenon that began in the 1980s, when news first broke of a mysterious and highly deadly disease. … to the globalization and economic neoliberalism that transformed the global economy in the late twentieth century. On … of HIV/AIDS in both the United States and around the world. For more Origins coverage of HIV/AIDS and other related …

Interracial Marriage in "Post-Racial" America

… fight racial prejudice through a celebration of multiracial community. The event takes its name from the 1967 Supreme … their hometown. After being arrested again in 1963 while visiting relatives in Virginia, Mildred Loving wrote … marriage or even the mere hint of its occurrence. Not coincidently, public hysteria against interracial marriage …
Communards with flags

The Socialist Legacy in France

… Doug Dangler  From the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing at The Ohio State … Thanks for being on the show Professor Conklin and welcome.   Dr. Alice Conklin   Thank you for having me.   … enjoyed being here.   Doug Dangler  For more Writers Talk visit www.writers talk.org.   …
a couple in a wedding dress and soldier dress uniform

Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust

… a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed … Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that … in History Program, and President of the Association for Jewish Studies. Nicholas Breyfogle (Moderator) is an …

The Illegalization of Marijuana: A Brief History

… recreational use. Across the state, celebratory stoners welcomed the New Year by lining up at licensed retailers to buy … purchasing medical marijuana requires a perfunctory visit to a “pot doc”—licensed physicians who specialize in … title “Marijuana, Assassin of Youth.” It was surely no coincidence that the scare movie Reefer Madness came a year …
A group of boys at Chirec International School in India playing Cricket, 2015.

Cricket without Boundaries: The Story of a Global Game

… time that the United States hosted an international cricket competition. In fact, the first international cricket game … diminish Americans’ love of cricket. Instead, its decline coincided with the Civil War, as Americans increasingly … racially mixed teams from competing abroad and required visiting international teams to be composed of only white …
Statue of Peter the Great in Moscow

The Past and Future of Russian-American Relations

… one. We should not panic if Russia, in the short-term, becomes more antagonistic toward Western values and interests. … chaos. Second and more important, the current round of reforms is part of a complex and ongoing process of … Russian and American geopolitical interests do not coincide. Both states will pursue policies to their own …
An MP looking north from South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone, 2008.

The War That Never Ended: The Legacy of the Korean War

… On June 15, 1950,  North Korean armed forces invaded  South Korea and launched a brutal war on the … forces, however, the South Korean military repelled the Communist attack and eventually pushed them north of the … the other. Sometimes diplomats from the two Koreas would visit the same head of state within the same day.  Seoul …
The other side of The Shore, depicting the Maritime House, third from the left. The former headquarters of the National Seamen’s Union are now flats.

A Postcard from Leith, Scotland

… replaces it. The wealthy Georgian facades of New Town transform into charity shops, pubs, Indian restaurants, and the … your right, you will encounter the upscale whiskey house, complete with nineteenth-century stone walls that feature … maritime, industrial, and working-class culture, when you visit the neighborhood today, the only reminders of that …
The supreme court of Massachusetts sits at the John Adams Courthouse in Boston.

Gay-Marriage Decision: Just the Beginning of the Debate

… decided this month that the state’s constitution does not forbid same-sex civil marriages. It therefore paved the way … before all slaves in Massachusetts would be set free, the Commonwealth v. Jennison case of 1783 ensured that slaves … still be a long time before popular opinion on the issue coincides with how judges define the rights of individuals …
Tiger

Caged: Humans and Animals at the Zoo

… Zoos are some of the world’s most visited attractions. Yet they often make headlines for controversial reasons such as in 2016 when the … or in 2017 when poachers killed a rhinoceros at a Paris Zoo for its horns. While schoolchildren and adults alike may … to think with, you know. Over 600 million people a year visit a zoo. So they're, you know, significant institutions …

With a Little Help from Our Friends?: The Costs of Coalition Warfare

… Hornet pilots defied the orders of their American commanding officers. These pilots independently aborted 40 … of familiarity with one another's commanders and staff, visits, the creation of liaison teams, multinational … best to develop and implement counterinsurgency operations (COIN), to design strategies to counter terrorism, and to …
Comic from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun.

“A New and Deadly Menace” (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 2)

… China, colonial Mexico, and turn-of-the-century California. Ultimately, a international perspective helps us to … drugs, we find that stories of drug wars are actually quite commonplace. Ultimately, these drug wars, waged across … As any good historian should, we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations to background …

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… "For insight into the complicated and complicating events ... , one needs perspective, not … attitudes; context, not anecdotes; analyses, not postures. For any kind of lasting illumination the focus must be on …