Week of March 25, 2013
Up Front
 Pete Seeger: "That Was the First Time I Met Reverend King..."Kris Wood Pete Seeger remembers the civil rights movement. Tags: civil rights movement, Martin Luther King, Pete Seeger, Rosa Parks |
The Iraq War After 10 Years
 American Anniversaries from HellTom Engelhardt What you don't know can hurt you. Tags: Afghanistan, Iraq, Iraq War, war on terror |
 The Hell of Iraq, Ten Years LaterDahr Jamail Life in a country with no future. Tags: Iraq, Iraq War, refugees, sectarian violence |
 Donald Rumsfeld: "What Will History Say?"Carolyn Eisenberg History will say Rumsfeld and his cronies were knaves, fools, and possibly war criminals, but the buck doesn't stop there. Tags: Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Iraq War, war crimes |
 The Iraq War: A Failure of Presidential LeadershipPeter R. Mansoor George W. Bush came up with a flawed strategy, then left it to the generals to fix it. Tags: Iraq War, anniversaries, George W. Bush, strategy |
 Britain's Costly Iraq BlunderLinda Colley Not only will the Iraq War make British PMs more cautious in the future, it may contribute to the very unravelling of the UK itself. Tags: Great Britain, Iraq, Iraq War, Scotland |
Pope Francis
_0.jpg) Papa Francesco: A New Era?Steven M. Avella The former president of the American Catholic Historical Association (and ordained priest) on the significance of the new pope. Tags: Catholic Church, papacy, Pope Francis, popes |
 If Not for Muammar Gaddafi, This Guy Might Have Been PopeMartin Kramer Sergio Pignedoli was a frontrunner to succeed Pope Paul VI in 1978... then he went to Libya for an ill-conceived theology conference. Tags: Sergio Pignedoli, popes, Muammar Gaddafi, Islam |
News Abroad
 Lockheed Martin at the TroughLawrence S. Wittner The defense industry's addiction to corporate welfare. Tags: corporate welfare, Lockheed Martin, Maryland, Montgomery County |
 The President, in Israel, Giveth and Taketh AwayIra Chernus's MythicAmerica Obama's Niebuhrian foreign policy. Tags: Barack Obama, Israel, special relationship, Israeli-Palestinian conflict |
 Denying Islam's Role in Terror: Explaining the DenialDaniel Pipes Why do so many experts continue to deny the obvious? Tags: Islam, Islamism, Middle East Quarterly, terrorism |
 A Brief History of Suicide BombingJeffrey William Lewis It isn't just for religious fundamentalists. Tags: Origins, suicide bombing, terrorism, The Ohio State University |
 The Ever-Destructive Dreams of Air Power EnthusiastsWilliam J. Astore Aerial warfare has never been cheap, nor surgical, nor decisive. Tags: air power, bombings, drones, drone warfare |
Historians & History
 Channelling Ben FranklinThomas Fleming The distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania's take on current events. Tags: American Revolution, Ben Franklin, Channelling George Washington, Founding Fathers |
 Learning to "Lean In" from Our Nineteenth-Century AncestorsEllen Gruber Garvey The first women to "lean in" were like Caroline Healey Dall. Tags: Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg, feminism, Caroline Healey Dall |
Culture Watch
 Breakfast at Tiffany's -- Send It BackBruce Chadwick Game of Thrones's Emilia Clarke makes a terrible Holly Golightly in this disaster of a play. Tags: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Cort Theater, Emilia Clarke, theater reviews |
 The 1905 "Bloody Sunday" Showdown in RussiaBruce Chadwick The New York Public Theater's taut retelling of the first Russian Revolution. Tags: Bloody Sunday, Neva, Russian Revolution, theater reviews |
Books
 Review of Diane Brady’s FraternityRichard Canedo Twenty young black men were admitted to the College of the Holy Cross in 1968... and they changed the world. Tags: Clarence Thomas, College of the Holy Cross, Diane Brady, Fraternity |
 Review of Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising AsiaJim Cullen A wonderful deconstruction of the self-help genre. Tags: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, fiction, Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist |