When telling the history of slavery we must admit its brutal complexity. The term slave mistress leaves too much unsaid, blanketing over the assault and coercion in many enslaved women's lives.
When journalists assess Jimmy Carter’s place in history, they should recognize that Carter’s policies were not the principal cause of difficult economic times in the Seventies.
The inexperienced & presumptuous band of medical tyros let loose upon the world, destroys more of human life in one year, than all the Robinhoods, Cartouches, & Macheaths do in a century.”
We must come to terms with the reality that we live in a multicultural, multinational world. Our assertion of uniqueness has been enormously expensive and counterproductive.
Vietnam was the bloodiest guerrilla war in modern history, and when it ended the United States military never really conducted any significant studies of the failed war.
It’s understandable why earlier generations of scholars ranked him high. They overlooked his racism, hostility to women’s suffrage, and religious zealotry. But today?
Many politicians publicly endorse capital punishment. But would it make a difference if they had to personally put people to death? Social science suggests it might.
Any effective U.S. foreign policy must not just vilify leaders, whether Saddam Hussein or Putin, but recognize and try to understand why so many foreign citizens think differently than we do.
