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World War I

“Put on the Diamonds”

by Vivian Gornick,

Notes on humiliation

The Old Normal

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Andrew J. Bacevich

Into the morass: a historical view of America’s disastrous foreign policy

The Old Normal

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

Why we can’t beat our addiction to war

Discovery, Interrupted

by Jeffrey Friedman,

How World War I delayed a treatment for diabetes and derailed one man’s chance at immortality

The Ghosts of Versailles

by Kevin Baker,

Ahundred years ago this month, the First World War shuddered to a close. The end came when the armistice took effect on the Western Front at 11 am on November…

American Imperium

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war

Riding the Night

by John Masefield,

All the way, at odd times, far off, with neither sense nor sequence, the guns have sounded almost like the noises of peace — blasting or pile-driving. Now, outside the…

Again Gone By

by Jason Novak,

An illustrated interpretation of “Gone, Gone Again,” by the British poet Edward Thomas.

My Two Visits to Verdun

by Walter Hale,

commenced in February. It was over the Voie Sacrée that the gallant Twentieth Corps — the corps d’attaque that has been used as the drivingwedge in every big assault since…

The Seductive Catastrophe

by Frederic Morton,

Why the world went to war in 1914

Stop Time

by Chloe Dewe Mathews, Geoff Dyer,

Remembering World War I’s executed deserters

World War I

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“Put on the Diamonds”

The Old Normal

The Old Normal

Discovery, Interrupted

The Ghosts of Versailles

American Imperium

Riding the Night

Again Gone By

My Two Visits to Verdun

The Seductive Catastrophe

Stop Time

June 2014

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