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War and society

A Way Out of Irpin

by Nicole Tung,

The Seductive Catastrophe

by Frederic Morton,

Why the world went to war in 1914

Dodge the Draft!

by James Marcus,

Ever since the last draft was ended, in 1973, a small but devoted chorus of pundits, legislators, and retired military men have been stumping for its return. These are not…

Conjectural damage

by Daniel Swift,

A history of bombing

Plight Simulator

by Harper’s Staff,

Lines of dialogue from a test version of the First Person Cultural Trainer, a computer game developed by a research team at the University of Texas at Dallas. The game…