Taking Stock of the Forever War: Global Jihad, War on Terror, American Power
Fall 2010 | Bard College
Fall 2010 | Bard College
Mark Danner delivers “Terror, Torture, Drones” at the annual MacArthur
Multiple Authors Mark Danner’s article was brilliant, devastating (Sept. 11).
Seldom has an image so clearly marked the turning of the world. One of man”s mightiest structures collapses into an immense white blossom of churning, roiling dust, metamorphosing in 14 seconds from hundred-story giant of the earth into towering white plume reaching to heaven.
Taking Stock of the Forever War from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner
Mark Danner · On the Eve of a New Cold
Author: Kelly Knaub On a sunny, brisk afternoon in November,
To contemplate a prewar map of Baghdad — as I do the one before me, with sectarian neighborhoods traced out in blue and red and yellow — is to look back on a lost Baghdad, a Baghdad of our dreams.
We pride ourselves in being realists first of all, and thus we know well, or tell ourselves we do, that “the first casualty when war comes is truth.”
Commencement address given to graduates of the Department of Rhetoric
The Politics of the Forever War: Terror, Rights, and
It was October 16, 2002, and the United States Congress had just voted to authorize the President to go to war against Iraq.