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Sabine Oishi: Nazi Gold & The Gnomes of Zürich

A hoard of gold, jewels and priceless art is securely tucked away, guarded, so the joke has long gone, by the gnomes of Zürich.

March 17, 2023 · 2 Comments

Juan Cole: The American War from Hell, 20 Years Later

The Iraq War ruined what credibility America had as a pillar of international order in the global south and gave Putin cover for his own atrocity.

March 15, 2023 · 7 Comments

Andrea Mazzarino: Children of War

Armed violence has percolated into just about every aspect of this country’s being — from violent video games to still-spiking mass shootings to local police forces armed with weapons of war.

March 7, 2023 · 3 Comments

Video: The Japanese Sword as the Soul of the Samurai

A rare glimpse inside a samurai sword workshop, where ritual meets mastery

March 5, 2023 · Leave a comment

Baron Wormser: Active Shooter

He could see something was out of whack. 

March 2, 2023 · 8 Comments

Liam Collins: The looming stalemate in Ukraine one year after the Russian invasion

In my view, the war will drag on until the economic and political cost of the war become too great for Russia. But Russia is nowhere close to that point, and the war will likely go on for years.

February 27, 2023 · 3 Comments

Emmelie Prophète: Pipo

Pipo often talked about fallen friends, their final, frozen, empty vision, almost as if he were feeling his own demise. He was close to and a cousin of Fanfan the Savage, but he was not an active gang member, and should never have died.

February 24, 2023 · 2 Comments

John Gould Fletcher: Lincoln

Like a gaunt, scraggly pine
Which lifts its head above the mournful sandhills;
And patiently, through dull years of bitter silence,
Untended and uncared for, starts to grow.

February 20, 2023 · 4 Comments

Naomi Shihab Nye: Blood

Homeless fig, this tragedy with a terrible root
is too big for us. What flag can we wave?
I wave the flag of stone and seed,
table mat stitched in blue.

February 19, 2023 · 17 Comments

Abby Zimet: Please Hurry, There’s A Lot of Dead Bodies. This Is Not Normal

Today in America, “The number one killer of children is guns.”

February 17, 2023 · 7 Comments

Karen J. Greenburg: The Real Failure of January 6th

How America’s Insurrectionists Crossed the Rubicon of History

January 31, 2023 · Leave a comment

Raphael Falco: How Bob Dylan used the ancient practice of ‘imitatio’ to craft some of the most original songs of his time

Bob Dylan is both a modern voice entirely unique and, at the same time, the product of ancient, time-honored ways of practicing and thinking about creativity.

January 27, 2023 · 5 Comments

Sabine Oishi: When the US bombed Switzerland

Although Switzerland was not actively involved in WWII, it suffered a total of seventy bombings by Allied airplanes between 1940 and 1945.

January 26, 2023 · 2 Comments

Rachel Hadas: Ancient Greece had extreme polarization and civil strife too – how Thucydides can help us understand Jan. 6 and its aftermath

The insights and objectivity of a historian who lived nearly 2,500 years ago can bolster our understanding of the country’s current plight.

January 24, 2023 · 4 Comments

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