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 protests by the Yellow Vest movement

France at the Barricades, 1934

… French cities. In fact, the riots of February 6 th have become shorthand to describe the protests and violence that … been dissolved and, in its place, born from the political division of the previous decade, was an authoritarian … are remembered for symbolizing the growing political divisions throughout Europe in the 1930s. Yet, the protests …
Dreamcatchers shown against the sky

Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College Students

… Dr. Lucy Murphy  Hello, welcome to "Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College … Dependent and Neglected Children in Denver, Colorado when I visited on March 25, in 2018. This picture is on the grounds … where my father was raised. It was a place that I had visited once before when I was about 12, or 13. We didn't …
Mexican flag in a square

Una Postal de la Ciudad de México

… ubicada en las afueras de la Ciudad de México, prosperó como una ciudad hace casi dos mil años. El ascenso y la … Aparte de ser un lugar estupendo que turistas pueden visitar, el Zócalo también es usado para protestar contra … del gobierno que el público desfavorece. Durante mi visita, fui testigo de un grupo de manifestadores hablando …
The Soldiers' Home in Washington, D.C.

“What I Did On My Summer Vacation,” by the President

… view of wartime Washington. On most mornings, Lincoln commuted into the city, but during hot summer months his … president shut the doors of his cottage to uninvited visitors. Lincoln met with antiwar politicians while at the Soldiers’ Home and talked with disgruntled soldiers. He visited the wounded. Yet those sometimes painful …
View of the Solovetskii Monastery.

A Postcard from Solovki

… stand at the bow of the ferry as the water of the White Sea comes in wave after wave through the hole in the gunwale for … and other factors on the growth patterns of this flora. Visitors stroll in the Botanical Gardens, Solovki. The monks … teaching and reading about the Gulag, I had never actually visited the site of one. I’d seen prisons but never a camp. …
Communards with flags

The Socialist Legacy in France

… Thanks for being on the show Professor Conklin and welcome.   Dr. Alice Conklin   Thank you for having me.   … divided. Really it goes back much further than, that the divisions on the left, the rise of fascism caused, for the … enjoyed being here.   Doug Dangler  For more Writers Talk visit www.writers talk.org.   …

American Populism and the Persistence of the Paranoid Style

… with a column praising the strategic savvy and tactical competence of abdicated Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Broder … her hand.) "Her invocation of 'conservative principles and common-sense solutions' was perfectly conventional," Broder … Pseudo-Conservative Revolt" (1954), "Pseudo-Conservatism Revisited" (1964), and "The Paranoid Style in American …
John F. Kennedy and Dr. Alvin Weinburg at the Graphite Reactor Oak Ridge National Lab in 1959.

The Dangers – Then and Now – of a Pre-Emptive Strike

… the free world and freedom on earth,” Kennedy told a visiting French diplomat in January 1963. Kennedy’s words … Bush administration has wisely allowed the international community to take the lead in responding to the threat from … sanctions against Iran for the first time and urged Iran to comply with a United Nations request to halt its nuclear …
Cover of Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy by Lyndal Roper.

The Legacy of Luther

Review of Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther’s World and Legacy, by Lyndal Roper (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021)
Obama wore Isabel Toledo clothes made of St. Gallen Embroidery to the 2009 presidential inauguration.

Is Michelle Obama the Ultimate Insider?

… begins to fade, there’s a race among critics to find a compelling Rasputin or a group of gray eminences pulling the … However anodyne Michelle Obama’s public image has become — with fashion magazine covers, visits to schools and tours of vegetable gardens — few …
President Reagan in February 1985.

Will the GOP Find a New Reagan?

… warfare threatened to tear the party apart. This division ran the risk of continuing indefinitely the … They have shown no inclination toward the kind of compromise that characterized President Reagan on issues … gubernatorial campaign Ronald Reagan declared his 11th Commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow …
Photo of William Colby

Casting the Long Shadow of the CIA

Review of Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA, by Randall B. Woods (New York: Basic Books, 2013)
… William Colby has become a more or less forgotten figure in the turbulent … the newly created CIA. Colby was assigned to the “Plans Division”—what we now call operations. By now, the Cold War … of Scandinavia and preventing the political success of the Communist Party in Italy. In 1959, however, Colby was given …
German and Indian troops as part of the international coalition to put down the Boxer Rebellion

History Shadows U.S.-China Relations

… spy-plane crisis. And the Japanese Prime Minister’s plan to visit a shrine honoring soldiers who died for his country … of more than $30 million (then an astronomical amount) as compensation to foreign powers for the damage caused by the … have been censured, not paid, in 1901.  Foreign soldiers committed war crimes, critics of the Protocol argue, and …
Monti's parents receive his Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama during a ceremony in the White House, September 17, 2009.

Leave the Medal of Honor Alone!

… gallantry.” Monti, 30, was serving with the 10th Mountain Division when he was killed in a battle at Gowardesh, … whether there is an inadvertent subjective bias amongst commanders that has contributed to the low numbers of awards … Gates to report back to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees next March.   The standards for this nation’s …
Last Supper By Simon Ushakov, 1685

Reverence and Relics: The Holy Dead in the Pre-Modern Christian World

Review of Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation, by Robert Bartlett (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013)
… were an obvious denominational marker. “Part Two: Dynamics” comprises the bulk of the book. In chapters five through … of some pilgrims were not strictly spiritual, and he compares the practice with modern tourism. In chapter … as well as heretical Christian sects, and finally a chapter comparing the Christian cult of the saints with similar …
Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon and Deng Xiaoping during the state dinner for the Vice Premier of China

The Nixon-Deng Comparison

… a famous politician dies, obituary writers and other commentators immediately start comparing the departed figure to other powerful people. As … not just because Nixon was the first American president to visit the People’s Republic of China and Deng was the first …
Dmitri Karakozov before his execution, graphite drawing by Ilya Repin in 1866

Crime and Punishment 150 Years Later

… it was being spoken about by fans of literature, who often complained about the stifling power of the novel and the … of pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna and her sister Lizaveta committed by ex-student Rodion Raskolnikov were “the purest … Punishment was published, a student by the name of Danilov committed a similar crime: killing a moneylender and his …
Statue of Sancho Panza in Madrid, Spain

Kindred Spirits: Shakespeare and Cervantes in Life and Death

… the rights of his novel to a printer. He was buried in a common grave. Most profoundly, our modern sensibility is … of the Bible, the  Iliad  and  Odyssey , the  Divine Comedy  and the  Canterbury Tales —didn’t explore our inner … There will be countless festivities around the world to commemorate 400 years since their deaths. Shakespeare’s …
A memorial dedicated to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War (1941-45) in Yaroslavl.

From Kulikovo Field to Kursk: Russia’s Forever War

Review of Russia: The Story of War, by Gregory Carleton (Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2017)
… and colossal defeats has long baffled western observers. Visitors to Russia’s capital, the epicenter of Russia’s cult … Further away from the city center, a sprawling memorial complex known as Victory Park pays homage to Russia’s wars … his book follows a loose chronology, Carleton fruitfully revisits earlier periods to trace the evolution of Russian …
Pioneers Palace in Kiev, Ukraine

Ukrainian Architecture at War

Architecture is a way of understanding the world: recording its history, sharing its culture, and connecting with people.
… For more information about the Co-Haty Project, please visit https://www.metalab.space/co-haty-ukr Video production …
Captured soldiers along the march with their hands tied behind their backs

The Bataan Death March

… was problematic at best. With the exception of one division of American regulars and a few capable Filipino … the mercurial personality of General Douglas MacArthur, commander of the U.S. and Filipino forces. Overconfident … later they were on quarter rations. (Troops in intensive combat require 3,500 calories per day. U.S. and Filipino …