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a man standing on a large bomb

Fifty Years Later, We Still Need to Learn to Love the Bomb

… Film Institute ranks the film as the third best American comedy ever made and the 39th best film overall. It would be … “You can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!” But few comedies have endured like Dr. Strangelove, and Strangelove … world leaders and more akin to squabbling spouses. By exposing the false logic and the trivial nature of Cold War …

Erasing Indigenous History, Then and Now

… Santorum, April 2021 Former Pennsylvania senator (and CNN commentator) Rick Santorum made those comments at a conservative student organization-hosted … land in the United States. The prevailing opinion was that since Indigenous peoples were not using the land in ways …

The Secular Roots of a Religious Divide in Contemporary Iraq

… some political pundits conclude, negotiations cannot overcome divine principles dictating distinct worldviews that … politics and religion we need to look back at the closing stages of the Ottoman era and the rise of modern … Rightly Guided Caliphs were chosen by a consensus of the community. This was not a democracy; it was instead a …
Judge Charles W. Pickering, Sr.

Ghosts of Mississippi Haunt Pickering’s Nomination

… The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will vote early in March on the Bush … to the 5th Circuit of Appeals, based in New Orleans. The committee should stop this nomination in its tracks.   Why … with the now-defunct Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, a state-sponsored police outfit that fought …
Mary Mallon in a hospital bed in 1907.

Who Was Typhoid Mary?

… peoples’ hands if people did not wash thoroughly after using the bathroom. When sewage seeped into drinking or … tested and found to be full of typhoid bacilli.  Mallon had committed no crime. She had been unaware of her carrier … public support for Mallon’s plight.  When a new health commissioner took office in 1910, he decided to release her …
From left to right, Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller in 2001.

Attorneys General Who Cry Wolf

… of immigrants were rounded up on vague suspicion of communist or anarchist sympathies. Ashcroft and his aides have indicated, commendably, that they want to avoid the civil liberties … the 1919 bombings required planning and coordination, raising the specter of an organized terrorist group within the …
The University of Algiers, ca. 1920.

The University of Algiers Library Bombing

… of thousands of books, periodicals, and manuscripts had become fuel for the flames.  Newspapers around the world … independence to take place in France and Algeria in the coming months.  It was in opposition to France’s decision to … of almost 500 cultural sites, including 18 libraries, since Russia’s invasion in February 2022. Such attacks …
Soldiers marching at the Champs Elysee

Recovering the History of the French Far-Right

Review of Assassination in Vichy: Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France , by Gayle K. Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020)
… hardly in question. The mystery was how high the plot went. Commissioner Charles Chenevier and Superintendent Georges … out. And so begins Brunelle and Finley-Croswhite’s Assassination in Vichy , like any good tale of murder and … papers related to the history of the Cagoule—an anti-communist terror organization founded by Eugène Deloncle to …

The Alpha and Omega of the Greek Debt Crisis

… the machine when I heard some Greek expletives and saw a commotion in front of me. The ATM ran out of money. I spent … accept the bailout conditions proposed by the European Commission. What felt like a scene from some apocalyptic … the Eurozone (the countries in the European Union (EU) using the Euro as currency). A 2015 march against the …
Cover of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders by Dennis C. Rasmussen

Such a Disappointment

Review of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders, by Dennis C. Rasmussen (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021)
… by the idea that the present seems pretty terrible in comparison with the past, even if that past is mythic or not … thing, and Rasmussen pairs each founder with a particular complaint. For Washington, it was partisanship. Even as he … That slavery vexed Jefferson isn’t altogether surprising since slavery had contorted Jefferson’s thinking for …
Black Friday shoppers in the morning at Walmart store in Durham, North Carolina.

Is Retailing’s Death Star Vulnerable After All?

… to Christmas, head over to the local Wal-Mart. The company’s promise of “everyday low prices” is music to the … For better or worse, we’re living in a Wal-Mart World. The company now produces an astonishing 2.3 percent of the … where shoppers turn away from Wal-Mart and give their business to retailers viewed as more employee — and consumer — …
The Sherman M4-A2E8 Tank

12/3/2014: At the Movies: Fury

… their way through a devastated Germany. The first major combat sequence takes place in an open field, as Collier and … climax as the crew of “Fury” defeats a German Tiger tank, losing the other tanks in their platoon in the process. All … was just murky. That’s what I wanted to show, that the outcome was wildly positive, but there was this still this …
Greek troops with a machine gun during the war

The Greco-Turkish War

… Greco-Turkish war erupted. The war resulted in the largest compulsory population exchange in history up to that time (2 … Reports soon circulated that these untrained volunteers committed acts of violence against their Muslim neighbors. … met with staunch resistance. Turkish revolutionary forces using guerilla warfare slowed the Greek Army’s progression, …
In this 1805 painting, the artist imagines American planter and Indian agent Benjamin Hawkins teaching Creeks to use a plow on his Georgia plantation.

Reflecting on Justice 200 Years after the Creek Civil War

… allows us to reflect on such important ideas as justice, communal violence, and political legitimacy. Like any civil … views among Creek people concerning the direction of their communities. But the civil war was also about justice. … the former has sued the latter (and the latter’s statements since) illustrates the depth of feeling for Creek heritage …
Cover of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire by Taner Akçam

The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Review of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, by Taner Akçam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012)
… to produce genocide. These include the Young Turks' intense commitment to the homogenization of Anatolia (a development … on the role of religion, not simply ethnicity, as a major component in the homogenization policies of the Committee of … of 1916, the Ottomans waged a campaign of ethnic cleansing designed to rid northern Syria of the Armenians. On the …
This painting by Jean-Baptiste de Saive (1562) portrays the environment of the kitchen as a place of making. As Wall argues, the kitchen was one of the main spaces for women to create and experiment.

Kitchen Wisdom

Review of Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen, by Wendy Wall (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).
… legacy and identity, verifying truth, and even forging community. Recipes were not only for the creation of tasty … a professional tome for practical knowledge. With increasing rates of literacy, recipes became less often the prized … of artistry that provided women with a way to engage in comedy and performance at the table. The production of a …
King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan.

Afghanistan, Drugs, and the Cold War (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 4)

… WWII, the United States began to boldly pursue a global community modeled upon American political, economic, and … menace seeking to snuff out America’s light. The godless Communists, American logic went, would stop at nothing to … approach to drugs. But it all gets lost in the Kennedy assassination and all the other chaos of the 1960s. Brionna …