It’s not a suicide note; it’s a love song. Amazon • Barnes & Noble
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It’s not a suicide note; it’s a love song. Amazon • Barnes & Noble
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The long-awaited Paris Climate Accord has been finished and is widely reported to be the most successful and ambitiou…
By Matthew J. Hefti I can’t count the number of variations I’ve seen on this meme on social media. It has reached the…
The Utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote the following lines in his great work On Liberty: “A party of orde…
Today, November 24th, 2015, Jason Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Laquan McDonald in …
I started preparing this essay a month or two ago to collect my thoughts about the after effects of the Charlie Hebdo…
Killing is the easiest thing in the world, easier than sex. Easier than raising a family or bringing a child into the…
The tired, simplistic, bargain-basement Cold War narrative of WWII sucks and it’s time we got over it. Accordi…
Dear NRA Members, 2nd Amendment lovers, Fraternal Order of Police members, legislators, judges, voters, prosec…
“The Thankful Poor”, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1894 Last month in The Atlantic, Egyptian writer and activist …
2015.09.06, Labor Day
Dear America,
You inspi…
Gun violence is deeply entrenched in America. Chances are, if you’ve spent any time outside the Upper East Side of Ma…
One month ago, on July 24, 2015, the sixth and final Messner Mountain Museum opened to the public on the top of a mou…
A piece about who finds zombie narratives compelling and why.
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Herodotus begins his great work by tracing the historical origins of the Persian War to myths involving conflict betw…
During my first tour in Afghanistan in 2005, I was one of those who still thought that the war was justified a…
A confluence of recent events has led to the practice of capital punishment in America becoming a matter of greater p…
They’re rebuilding Prussian Berlin. Not exactly the way it was before World War II, but Prussia is unquestionab…
How World War II gets remembered isn’t accurate, and for Curzio Malaparte, it's not even true. Not the …
There aren’t many “literary” fiction books out about Afghanistan, and almost none authored by…
“Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of Death rode the six …
America has a problem with violence, and specifically gun violence. This is a fact, not an opinion, and is confirmed …
After war, most societies look for love. Instead of dealing with the various manifest issues that remain after y…
With so much incredible, breakthrough writing happening at The Wrath Bearing Tree this year, the editors wanted to se…
Brad Pitt loves playing in WWII movies. He loves fighting Nazis, who, incredibly, really existed, and were (if a…
We have recently passed the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, which has occasioned a fair amount of p…
American Sniper, a new film based on the book of the same name, is being released on Christmas Day. Directed by Clint…
By now everyone in the world has heard about the recently released U.S. Senate Torture Report, which details the shoc…
Let’s be honest about racism. It’s here. And it’s not going anywhere. But its prevalence is surpris…
I have the solution to the full-blown crisis in the Middle East, and as usual, America is the only country that can d…
We never meant things to get out of hand the way they did in Iran. Let's agree about that to begin with, let…
It’s sad when you already know what people are going to say when you tell them that staying in Afghanistan today is a…
I read a piece on Vox recently (compliments of former roommate and exceptional human being Damien Spleeters) the poin…
Hollywood does not know how to make a film about war. This has been proven on so many different occasions, often aver…
There are two substantial issues facing the American military and veteran community today. The first, a logical and n…
Thought experiment. Someone you know, and who knows you, but not very well, says in public that you have no integrity…
Vanished, Wil S. Hylton’s book about the search to identify and return servicemembers’ remains to their families – no…
The suicide bomber came from the wrong direction. He drove a maroon Toyota Corolla into the middle of a group of Afgh…
The most important compromise that allowed for the passage of the U.S. Constitution was that there be included a seri…
We recently witnessed the 50th anniversary celebration of the famous 1963 “March on Washington”, which wa…
Racism, anti-Semitism, sexism, homophobia, tribalism, nationalism, parochialism, xenophobia, jingoism, bigotry, intol…
Some useful acronyms by which to understand 21st century conflict: COIN: Counter Insurgency. Employed by ISAF in Afgh…
We have collectively learned much in the last couple years about a secret and frightful new war machine — Unman…