After September 11: Our State of Exception
The New York Review of Books | Published: 09/11/11
We are living in the State of Exception. We don’t know when it will end, as we don’t know when the War on Terror will end. But we all know when it began.
Torture: Once anathema, now a choice
New York | Published: 08/27/11
In the weeks after 9/11, Americans began torturing prisoners. At first, spurred on by fear, panic, guilt, and desperation, they improvised—stripping a wounded John Walker Lindh, the so-called American Taliban, taping him naked to a stretcher and leaving him bleeding and untreated for days in a freezing shipping container.
To Heal Haiti, Look to History, Not Nature
The New York Times | Published: 01/21/10
Recovery can come only with vital, even heroic, outside help; but such help will do little to restore Haiti unless it addresses the manmade causes that lie beneath the Haitian malady.
VIDEO | 03/08/12
The Massacre at El Mozote, 30 Years On
VIDEO | 01/17/12
Mark Danner discusses El Mozote's 30th anniversary, on al Jazeera English.
Ojai Festival 2011- Music in the Time of War Symposium
VIDEO | 06/10/11
Deeply passionate about music, politics and theater, Peter Sellars and Mark Danner discuss how “ the moral concerns of the U.S. as a polity and a great power must stem, ultimately, from a grounding in the humanities.”
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