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… Total War Canadian soldiers walk through smoke and dust at dusk after blasting an … base (FOB) where I had spent so many days watching broken bodies roll in. It was the peak of the Afghan fighting season, … time in late summer when all the perfect conditions for war come terribly together. The medics stood outside the UMS, …
… in part as the result of the impact of the European Common Market. Ever since the announcement of the Truman … in 1947, when American moral and material support was committed to the maintenance of Greek and Turkish … arteries of vital communication and oil resources but also would discourage Russia from attempting to establish …
Criticism
… Worlds. By Maurice Hindus. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company. $3.00. Having come to love America, and having observed, as how could they … choice of subject matter “My America” is metropolitan. It deals with causes, trends, movements, episodes, eras. Intent …
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… Income Disparity Within a Marriage The following post is part … to the limits of digital publishing, but one of the points made in a post over at Gawker really leapt out at me: … And while living this life makes me feel gratitude, I will also always feel extreme, crushing guilt. Last year, I was …
… and fundamental racism. Today, however, as Hobson points out in his VQR essay, Southern benightedness is … “largely as a historical phenomenon.” The Bible Belt has become the Sun Belt, the Savage South the Superior South. In … Gross is an associate professor of history and American studies at Amherst College. He has also taught at the …
… even more inadequate. Readers familiar with Charles Burns’s comics already will be well aware of the excruciatingly … poetic juxta-position of images and other sundry talking points) and while I might be able to do a college passing-C … “low class,” his sketchbooks filled with respectful studies of forgotten B-list comic book artists and pencil …