Into the Light of Day: Torture, Human Rights, and Bush’s State of Exception (No Video)
Lecture by Mark Danner; Jeremy Waldron and Scott Horton, respondents;
January 13, 2006
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The Election and America’s Future
It has been clear for several months that the United States is losing its war in Iraq. What remains to be seen is whether Americans will come to realize this fact before the election or after it.
November 4, 2004
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Setting the Agenda? The New York Times and America’s View of the World
Setting the Agenda? The New York Times and America’s View
November 18, 2002
Editing the New York Review of Books: A Conversation with Robert B. Silvers
Mark Danner in conversation with Robert Silvers, North Gate Hall
April 28, 1999
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Iran-Contra in the Light of History (discussant)
I think I’d like to begin by asking about Iran-Contra the question the Jesuits like to ask when they see a difficult problem, which is: What is its quiddity? What is its “whatness”? What separates it from everything else – in particular, from other scandals?
July 17, 1997
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Beyond the Mountains (Part III)
On February 7,1986, the day the dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier and his wife, Michèle Bennett, flew off to exile in France, a crowd of jubilant Haitians invaded the National Cemetery, a vast expanse of concrete crammed with bright-colored tombs — ivory and turquoise and rose — bearing the names of Haiti’s great families.
December 11, 1989
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Beyond the Mountains (Part I)
Mornings in Port au-Prince, just before dawn, as the last, scattered gunshots faded in the distance and the outlines of the city began to take shape in the dirty air—tiny houses, painted aqua and salmon; the huge and ghostly National Palace, gleaming white; gray and rust-colored slums, canopied in smoke—my colleagues and I would go off in search of bodies.
November 27, 1989