New perspectives on how history is made
The death of American Exceptionalism -- and of me.
Written in contrary to certain shibboleths...
The American exceptionalism sweepstakes.
I've financed my own research project using Kickstarter.
Renowed journalist Hedrick Smith on how powerful forces in the past four decades shifted wealth to the very rich and divided America.
The GOP had a fraught relationship with black voters even before the Civil Rights Act.
...when the pope and the president of Iran are more doctrinally flexible than the GOP.
Because they still need to be debunked.
Upton Sinclair would be appalled at the lack of regulation of the meat industry, one hundred years after "The Jungle."
How the security state’s mania for secrecy will create you.
Historian Lynne Olson on FDR, Charles Lindbergh and the dispute over entry into World War II.
Will future historians speak of the "Iraq Syndrome"?
Nor are wars won when honest efforts to critique tactics are stonewalled by the military establishment.
The Kerry-Lavrov agreement may be the inflection point when the U.S. stops being the sole superpower.
Insights from the great philosophers.
Syria should be a wake-up call for all nations: weapons of mass destruction are dangerous by their very nature.
"War is abhorrent to the individual, yet he accepts blowing men to pieces with high explosives ... however, to burn the skin of a man outrages all his civilized instincts."
The president was graded by 203 historians on 16 different criteria.
Don't hold your breath.
So many were produced for the abortive invasion of Japan, WWII-era Purple Hearts continue to be issued to wounded or killed American servicemen.
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