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Memory Loss in the Garden of Violence
How Americans Remember (and Forget) Their Wars
• May 4, 2017
• 2,200 Words • 83 Comments • Reply
Some years ago, a newspaper article credited a European visitor with the wry observation that Americans are charming because they have such short memories. When it comes to the nation’s wars, however, he was not entirely on target. Americans embrace military histories of the heroic “band of [American] brothers” sort, especially involving World War II.... Read More
John Dower: Terror Is in the Eye of the Beholder
• May 4, 2017
• 600 Words • 3 Comments • Reply
Our lives are, of course, our histories, which makes us all, however inadvertently, historians. Part of my own history, my other life -- not the TomDispatch one that’s consumed me for the last 14 years -- has been editing books. I have no idea how many books I’ve edited since I was in my twenties,... Read More
Michael Klare: Winning World War II in the Twenty-First Century
• March 14, 2017
• 700 Words • 5 Comments • Reply
The other day, I walked across much of Manhattan Island on the street where I grew up. Once upon a time, in a space of just four blocks along that very street there were four movie theaters (no small wonder in the 1950s). Only The Paris Theater, somewhat the worse for wear, still stands. Tao,... Read More
Trump’s Military Nostalgia (Or Victory at Sea All Over Again)
Rebuilding a Last-Century Military to Fight Last-Century Wars
• March 14, 2017
• 2,800 Words • 2 Comments • Reply
If you are an American male of a certain age -- Donald Trump’s age, to be exact -- you are likely to have vivid memories of Victory at Sea, the Emmy award-winning NBC documentary series about the U.S. Navy in World War II that aired from October 1952 to May 1953. One of the first... Read More
The Oilman Who Loved Dictators
Or How Texaco Supported Fascism
• March 20, 2016
• 2,900 Words • 2 Comments • Reply
[This piece has been adapted from Adam Hochschild's new book, Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.] “Merchants have no country,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1814. “The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.” The former president was... Read More
Entering the Nuclear Age, Body by Body
The Nagasaki Experience
• August 6, 2015
• 3,000 Words • Leave a Comment
[This essay has been adapted from chapters 1 and 2 of Susan Southard’s new book, Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War, with the kind permission of Viking.] Korean and Chinese workers, prisoners of war, and mobilized adults and students had returned to their work sites; some dug or repaired shelters, others piled sandbags against the windows... Read More
Our “Merciful” Ending to the “Good War”
Or How Patriotism Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry
• August 4, 2015
• 3,300 Words • 4 Comments • Reply
By Christian Appy “Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.” -- President Harry Truman Here we are, 70 years after the nuclear obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and I'm wondering if we've come even one step closer to a moral reckoning with our status as the world's only country to... Read More
Requiem for the Home Front
A Cheer for Irma the Caricaturist
• July 21, 2015
• 3,200 Words • 3 Comments • Reply
Almost three quarters of a century ago, my mother placed a message in a bottle and tossed it out beyond the waves. It bobbed along through tides, storms, and squalls until just recently, almost four decades after her death, it washed ashore at my feet. I’m speaking metaphorically, of course. Still, what happened, even stripped... Read More
"World War II" Items Across Entire Archive
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Bragging Rights
Eight Exceptional(ly Dumb) American Achievements of the Twenty-First Century
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Letter to an Unknown Whistleblower
How the Security State’s Mania for Secrecy Will Create You
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And Then There Was One
Delusional Thinking in the Age of the Single Superpower
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