The Kaiser’s Coolies — German Sailors in WWI
Though All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929, made Erich Maria Remarque far and away the …
Though All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929, made Erich Maria Remarque far and away the …
Stephen Pinker, Harvard savant and current leader in the Candide impersonator contest, was up to his usual tricks at the …
“If in any country whatever a recruiting campaign were to be launched today for some utterly preposterous war, a war …
Travis Wilkerson’s new film, Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?, is having a few, hard to find, viewings in the …
Those of us who have spent anytime at all in Hawaii, usually on vacation, enjoying the fine weather, the …
I was co-author of a recent opinion piece in the NY Times on-going Vietnam ’67 series. It begins like this: …
In these years when many have worried aloud about a neo-civil war brewing between American shores it is somewhat …
War Porn (2016) by Roy Scranton is not a book to be easily read. To be read, yes, but …
Ken Burns’ PBS series, The Vietnam War has been much in the news, and on many minds, this fall, 52 years …
Friends and I spent a most memorable two weeks in Iceland at the beginning of September, 2017. Not only was …
A surprise gift from a brother on a recent birthday was Jonathan White’s 2017 Tides: The Science and Spirit of …
The news from Spain and Catalonia this week has made my blood run cold. Plebiscites, exuberance, declarations of independence. The …