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The Most Hated Nation

It was the foggy end of a drizzly day. Along the lunch counter of the Ferry Dock Tavern, gray-haired men in overalls and leather jackets were eating oyster stew. A…

Freedom from Inspiration

by Kevin Baker,

The fight over which of our public monuments should remain where they are is as complicated as the American past they commemorate. For all the fighting over who and what…

Machine Politics

by Harper’s Magazine,

Rather than creating a more equal society, the internet has given rise to a new age of authoritarianism

Machine Politics

by Fred Turner,

The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism

The Fountain Pen

by Lore Groszmann Segal,

From the journal I did not keep

Highly Ineffective People

From the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, published in 1944 by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services. The manual, which was declassified in 2008, was intended for distribution to citizens of enemy…

American Imperium

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war

Oath of the Elbe

by Walter Kempowski,

From Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich, edited by Walter Kempowski, out this month from W. W. Norton. On April 25, 1945, Soviet…

Giving Up the Ghost

by Leslie Jamison,

The eternal allure of life after death

The War of the World

by Rebecca Solnit,

On a single day in July of 1943, more than 500 Allied planes bombed Rome, killing 1,500 people. The city got off lightly compared with Naples, which was attacked 200…

Body Count

by Alexander Kluge,Translated by Martin Chalmers,

By Alexander Kluge, from Air Raid, an account of the destruction of Halberstadt, Germany, by American bomber squadrons on April 8, 1945, out this month from Seagull Books. Kluge is…

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The Most Hated Nation

Freedom from Inspiration

Machine Politics

Machine Politics

The Fountain Pen

Highly Ineffective People

American Imperium

Oath of the Elbe

Giving Up the Ghost

The War of the World

Body Count

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