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Although critics of the Biden administration’s Build Back Better plan to increase funding for U.S. education, healthcare, and action against climate catastrophe…
Lawrence S. Wittner
Lawrence ("Larry") Wittner was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and attended Columbia College, the University of Wisconsin, and Columbia University, where he received his Ph.D. in history in 1967. Thereafter, he taught history at Hampton Institute, at Vassar College, at Japanese universities (under the Fulbright program), and at SUNY/Albany. In 2010, he retired as professor of history emeritus. A writer on peace and foreign policy issues, he is the author or editor of twelve books and hundreds of published articles and book reviews and a former president of the Peace History Society. Since 1961, he has been active in the peace, racial equality, and labor movements, and currently serves as a national board member of Peace Action (America's largest grassroots peace organization) and as executive secretary of the Albany County Central Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO. On occasion, he helps to fan the flames of discontent by performing vocally and on the banjo with the Solidarity Singers. His latest book is Working for Peace and Justice: Memoirs of an Activist Intellectual (University of Tennessee Press). More information about him can be found at his website: http://lawrenceswittner.com.
On September 10, 2021, during an important diplomatic meeting that occurred by telephone, U.S. President Joseph Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping…
Governments have not taken adequate action to stave off the catastrophes of nuclear war, climate change, and disease pandemics. Why?
In ancient Greek mythology, Cassandra was a priestess who was able to predict the future but unable to convince others to act…
Is it possible to build social solidarity beyond the state?
Is it possible to build social solidarity beyond the state? It’s easy to conclude that it’s not. In 1915, as national governments…
By Lawrence Wittner and Joseph Mangano In 2020, Harvard University’s T. C. Chan School of Public Health began a five-year study, funded…
The United States and China, the world’s mightiest military and economic powers, are currently heading toward a Cold War or even a…
Although, beginning in about 2015, nationalist political parties made enormous advances in countries around the world, more recently they have been on…
The political tide has recently turned against nationalism and, consequently, possibilities have re-emerged for addressing global problems on a global basis