Sea Power: Then and Now
June 26, 2024
Evan Mawdsley— Sea power is back in the news. In April 2022, the cruiser Moskva was sunk by Ukrainian anti-ship missiles. Since last November, American and British warships have actively… READ MORE
Category: Politics
Is Our President a National Security Threat?
June 17, 2024
Harold Hongju Koh— If re-elected, could President Trump, by a single tweet, withdraw America from the United Nations, NATO, and every treaty and international organization to which the U.S. belongs?… READ MORE
The Puzzle of Roe v. Wade
June 14, 2024
It may be a bit of mystery why we care so much about Roe. The Court has issued other blockbuster opinions, and they have mostly faded into obscurity. Debates about… READ MORE
Our Palestine Question: A Conversation with Geoffrey Levin
June 11, 2024
Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978 is a new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question… READ MORE
Writing a Life
June 5, 2024
Chitralekha Zutshi— For historians, writing biographies can be challenging. We are trained to think in terms of broader social and political processes, not individual lives. But while writing the life… READ MORE
America’s Reckoning with Gaza at Home and the Great Rupture in International Relations
June 4, 2024
Fawaz A. Gerges— In May 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama, more than a thousand school students participated in the Children’s March intended to force the city to reckon with the demands… READ MORE
How U.S. Policy in Yemen Went Tragically Wrong
May 13, 2024
Alexandra Stark— On October 8, 2016, an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition struck a crowded funeral hall in Sanaa, Yemen, killing at least 140 people and wounding an additional 600,… READ MORE
Empires, Wars, Collapse: 1914-2024
April 11, 2024
Iryna Vushko— I was putting the finishing touch on my book on the history of places and people from a hundred years ago and was watching an apocalypse of unprecedented… READ MORE
The High-Tech Revolution is Transforming the Very Foundations of Human Existence
April 4, 2024
Bruce Ackerman— For the first time in history, all of us are living two lives at once — engaging in distant relationships on the internet while dealing with one another… READ MORE
The Women, Men, and Children of the 1984–85 UK Miners’ Strike
March 29, 2024
Robert Gildea— [T]here was something of a gender revolution. Miners’ wives had been transformed by the strike. They had been involved in setting up local support groups, which came together… READ MORE
A Conversation with Trudier Harris on Bigger: A Literary Life