Roundup

Jun 2, 2016

Pop Culture Roundup: This Week

This Week ... Roots, Kitty Genovese, Ken Burns, Dick Gregory and more!

Source: New York Magazine

Jun 1, 2016

What The Donald Shares With The Ronald

by Frank Rich

They may be stylistically different, but Trump and Reagan marketed the same brand of outrage to the same angry segments of the electorate.

Source: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus

Jun 1, 2016

To Hell and Back: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and American Nuclear Denial

by Peter Lee

Hiroshima from the perspective of the people who died and survived.

Source: The Conversation

Jun 1, 2016

Why this UK military historian thinks its high time military leaders speak out in politics

by Professor Hew Strachan

The fear of a coup is remote. Besides, it’s the Americans who dreamed up the separation of the military from politics.

Source: The Conversation

Jun 1, 2016

What Enlightenment philosophers would have made of Donald Trump – and the state of American democracy

by Anna Plassart

Trump’s Republican critics are drawing on the Enlightenment as a point of reference.

Source: Tom Dispatch

May 31, 2016

Milestones (Or What Passes for Them in Washington)

by Andrew J. Bacevich

A Multi-Trillion-Dollar Bridge to Nowhere in the Greater Middle East

Source: The Los Angeles Times

May 30, 2016

History isn't a 'useless' major

by James Grossman

It teaches critical thinking, something America needs plenty more of.

Source: The Daily Beast

May 29, 2016

Westway, New York’s Great Highway That Never Was

by Gil Troy

The idea was to transform four miles of the West Side into one hundred acres of urban parkland that would embrace houses, shops, and offices—with a six-lane highway underneath. But Westway never happened.

Source: Huffington Post

May 27, 2016

The United States of Trumpistan?

by Manisha Sinha

To understand the Trump phenomenon, political commentators have pointed to the rise of Hitler and the recent growing political strength of the far right in the continent. In fact, they should be looking closer to home.

Source: The Washington Post

May 27, 2016

Iran’s Holocaust denial is part of a malevolent strategy

by Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh

The Islamic Republic of Iran held another Holocaust cartoon festival this month, inviting the usual despicable cast of characters.

Source: The New Yorker

May 27, 2016

What Presidents Talk About When They Talk About Hiroshima

by Alex Wellerstein

The case against Hiroshima was often made by military leaders. Here's what they said.

Source: NYT

May 27, 2016

When the Barbarous Brits First Quit Europe

by Tom Holland

As Britain prepares to vote next month on whether to leave the European Union, the story of Boudicca serves as a reminder that the tradition of British euroskepticism is an ancient one.

Source: Greene Street Project

May 26, 2016

Video of the Week: Brothels, Sweatshops, and the Apple Store: 400 Years On One NYC Block

NYU economist William Easterly goes hyperlocal—focusing on 486 feet of Greene Street between Houston and Prince Streets in SoHo—to explore cycles of development and decline over 400 years of New York City history.