‘Memory says, ‘I did that,’ Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote. ‘Pride replies, ‘I could not have done that.’ Eventually, memory yields.’ Three years…
The memories of another day — missing ruminations of generations. Will we ever remember? Will we ever learn? Who’s to say? …
Ahead of schedule, the U.S.-governed Coalition Provisional Authority has handed over power to the U.S.-installed Interim Iraqi Government. We are best advised…
“This question I put to the defenders of this war,” said George Boutwell, the first president of the Anti-Imperialist League of the…
Coincidence, pattern, and memory. Tricky things these three. One ghastly day in May, at close to three in the morning, a…
Climate change. Suddenly, because of a movie, so many are now talking about the greatest threat the planet has ever faced.…
Competing legacies of a single day. Infamous and immaculate: the bequests of the twenty fourth of May. On the 24th of…
The poverty of memory — this is our collective quagmire, its alleviation our common hope.In a photograph taken “for historical purposes,” ten…
Mightier than the government of Israel. One man. He has been incarcerated for almost 18 years, 12 spent in solitary confinement,…
And so here we are, at the crossroads of another day, speechless and troubled by what is before us, so anxious to…
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