War Is the Enemy

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. America has two war parties, Republican and Democratic, ensuring the death of democracy since war is the most insidious enemy of freedom and liberty. When I wrote recently about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a...

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The Ongoing Genocide in Gaza

Genocide studies scholar Omer Bartov now believes that the Israeli government’s campaign in Gaza is genocidal: But another part of my apprehension had to do with the fact that my view of what was happening in Gaza had shifted. On 10 November 2023, I wrote in the New...

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Cheerleaders of the Military-Industrial Complex

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have something in common.  They both embrace colossal Pentagon budgets and both celebrate the “lethality” of the U.S. military, which, they agree, must be the strongest, bestest,...

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