Northern Ireland
July 1, 2021
Feargal Cochrane— It is difficult to overstate the chaos, confusion and emotion that accompanied the creation of Northern Ireland in 1921. It was not a smooth transition. At the stroke… READ MORE
Tag: political history
Idi Amin and the Uses of Political Buffoonery
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Mark Leopold— From the beginning of my research into the life of the notorious Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin, I noticed the frequency with which contemporary commentators (especially but not only… READ MORE
Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia
February 25, 2021
Christian Lund— In 2013, my friend Oji and I were talking to a group of villagers not far from Garut, in West Java. The land around had been the object… READ MORE
Our Declaration of Interdependence
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Susan Dunn— In 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt SUGGESTED a two-year experiment: he proposed moving the date of Thanksgiving up one week from the customary last Thursday in November. The point… READ MORE
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