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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…