Getting Out the Fear Vote
As Trump improvises at his rallies, his grim imaginings of a mongrelized, crime-ridden country are transformed into unfalsifiable myths.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Telluride Introduction and Q&A
Mark Danner’s introduction and Q&A for “Seed of the Sacred Fig”, at Telluride Film Festival 2024.
Edward Wong: At the Edge of Empire
Edward Wong (’98), New York Times diplomatic correspondent, in conversation with Professor Mark Danner about his new book, “At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China”, Thursday, October 17 at Berkeley Journalism.
What If He Wins? A Conversation About Trump and the Law
New York Review contributors Fintan O’Toole, Pamela Karlan, and Mark Danner for a conversation about the legal issues at stake during the upcoming presidential election.
Ben Fountain in Conversation with Mark Danner – Joyce Carol Oates Prize
UC Berkeley Department of English, in partnership with the New Literary Project, hosts Joyce Carol Oates Prize winner Ben Fountain for a reading of his work and a conversation with Mark Danner.
Steve Wasserman in Conversation with Mark Danner – Mrs. Dalloway’s, Berkeley
Steve Wasserman discusses his new book from Heyday, Tell Me Something, Anything, Even If It’s a Lie, with Mark Danner at Mrs. Dalloway’s in Berkeley.
Interview with Gerry Fialka, InnerViews #498
Mark Danner in conversation with Gerry Fialka on the InnerViews
No Other Land – Telluride Introduction and Q&A
Mark Danner’s introduction and Q&A for “No Other Land”, at Telluride Film Festival 2024.
Separated – Telluride Film Review
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris tells the fictional story of a Guatemalan family to revisit America’s zero tolerance immigration policy, with a focus on the dark, mysterious bureaucratic decisions that led to its implementation.
Apocalypse in the Tropics – Telluride Film Review
Oscar-nominated Brazilian director Petra Costa investigates the growing power of the evangelical movement in Brazil, one of the world’s largest Christian nations.
September 5 – Telluride Film Review
When terrorism disrupts the 1972 Munich Olympics, ABC Sports scrambles to become a news team. Tim Fehlbaum’s film offers a fresh perspective on this enduring tragedy.
Israel Into Gaza: Terror, Collateral Damage and the Killing of Innocents
Presented by the Institute of International Studies at University of California,
America’s Autocratic Future? — With Mark Danner
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War on the Borderlands: Conflict Reporting Now
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Sex, Crime, Double Cross: Film Noir’s Hard-Boiled World
Sex, Crime, Double Cross Film Noir’s Hard-Boiled World English 190
Interview with Gerry Fialka, InnerViews #423
Mark Danner in conversation with Gerry Fialka on the InnerViews
KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Mark Danner
American foreign policy in a time when nowhere or nobody is really foreign anymore
Pastor Lecture Series 2024
Disappearing Human Rights: Can the “Indispensable Nation” Still Lead?
In A Time of Emergency: Covering American Politics Now
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The Grievance Artist
If Trump has a genius, it is his ability to shape, often out of his own self-made follies and recklessness and crimes, a narrative that relentlessly reaffirms his grim story of an us-versus-them America.
Mark Danner in conversation with Nathan Thrall – A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ABED SALAMA
What a deadly road crash in the West Bank and its aftermath reveal about Palestinian life under Israeli rule from one of the best-informed, most trenchant observers of Israeli and Palestinian conflict.
Ben Fountain in Conversation with Mark Danner – Devil Makes Three
This event was hosted in-person at Book Passage’s Corte Madera
Hollywoodgate – Telluride Film Review
After the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, journalist Ibrahim Nash’at embedded within the Taliban’s Air Force, revealing a grim world of fear and oppression.
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A review of Frank Costigliola’s biography, Kennan: A Life between Worlds
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Mark Danner discusses the relationship between journalists and institutions in
Telluride Film Festival 2022: Conversation with Dror Moreh, Moses Bwayo and Bryan Fogel
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On the Eve of a New Cold War?: Foreign Reporting in the Shadow of Ukraine
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Living with Literature: From Reading The Iliad to Covering Iraq (Interview with Aggie Murch, KWMR 90.5FM, Point Reyes CA)
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Murderers, Madmen and Dissolutes: Cormac McCarthy and His Progeny
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Telluride Film Festival 2022: “Retrograde” with Matthew Heineman
Director Matthew Heineman and Mark Danner in conversation post-screening of
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Director Dror Moreh and Mark Danner in conversation post-screening of
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Haiti and “The Quake”: 2010 PBS Frontline interview
A powerful report on Haiti’s 2010 tragedy: Frontline’s “The Quake”.
Trump: The Slow-Motion Coup (Part I)
Today is not the end. It’s just the beginning. —Donald
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Mark Danner in conversation with filmmaker Matthew Heineman, on the
The Slow-Motion Coup, the War in Ukraine and How to Cover it All: The Class of 1961 Chair Lecture
Professor Mark Danner delivers the UC Berkeley Class of 1961
Telluride Film Festival 2022: Sunday Conversation
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Berkeley Connect Talk, 7/27/22
Professor Mark Danner speaks with incoming UC Berkeley students about
This is Your Mind on Plants: Michael Pollan and Mark Danner in Conversation
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Writing Crises: The Broken Self and The Broken World
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All That is Solid with Judith Belzer
Long time friends Mark Danner and Judith Belzer discuss Judith’s
Hacks of the Silver Screen
Hacks of the Silver Screen Reporters on Film, Reporters in
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War in Ukraine: Explaining the War and its History
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Laughter and Annihilation: The Writing of Samuel Beckett
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Read Along with Berkeley December 1, 2021 Join Mark Danner
Read Along with Berkeley – October 6
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Present at the Creation: Reporting on America Abroad
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Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Saturday, November 20,
Read Along with Berkeley – November 3
Read Along with Berkeley November 3, 2021 Join Mark Danner
Remembering John Homans:
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Masacre: La guerra sucia en El Salvador
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Spring 2021 | UC Berkeley
War and Data: Telling Human Rights Stories Using Open Sources
Spring 2020 | UC Berkeley
PoMo: Exploring the Landscape of Postmodernism
Spring 2020 | UC Berkeley
War Music: Covering Conflict in the Age of Forever War
Spring 2019 | UC Berkeley
On the Two Ways of Late Century Fiction: Nabokov and Naipaul
Spring 2019 | UC Berkeley
Laughter and Vision: Explorations in the Novel of Ideas
Fall 2018 | UC Berkeley
Laughter and Vision: Explorations in the Novel of Ideas
Fall 2018 | Bard College
Trump Abroad: America First and the End of Human Rights
Fall 2018 | Bard College
Bang Bang Abroad: Following it, Reporting it, Writing it
Spring 2018 | UC Berkeley
Writing After Modernism: Quixote, the Boom and Postmodern Play
Fall, 2017 | Bard College
The End of the Paradigm? Terror, Trump and the Testing of Human Rights
Fall, 2017 | Bard College
The Perversities of Power – Human Rights & U.S. Foreign Policy
Spring 2017 | Bard College
Writing on War
Spring 2016 | University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Through a Future Darkly: Global Crisis and the Triumph of Dystopia
Fall 2015 | Bard College
Through A Future Darkly: Global Crisis and the Triumph of Dystopia
Spring 2016 | University of California, Berkeley
The Rise of the Terror State 9/11, the Arab Spring & the End of the Postwar Order
Fall 2015 | Bard College
Catastrophe, Conflict, Scandal: Longform and the Decoding of Reality
Spring 2015 | UC Berkeley
From Centaurs to Superheroes Metamorphosis, Monsters & The Supernatural Everyday
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Terror, Torture, Drones: Trapped in the Emergency State
Fall 2014 | Bard College
From Centaurs to Superheroes Metamorphosis, Monsters & The Supernatural Everyday
Fall 2014 | Bard College
Portraits in Black: Dictator, Autocrat, Caudillo
Spring 2013 | UC Berkeley
Catastrophe, Conflict, Scandal: Long Form and the Decoding of Reality
Spring 2013 | UC Berkeley
Death From the Sky: Drones, Terror and The New Normal in US Foreign Policy Fall 2012 Al Quds University
Fall 2012 | Al Quds University
Out of the Ruins: Rebuilding US Foreign Policy After Bush’s War on Terror
Spring 2009 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Portraits in Black: Dictator, Democrat, Tyrant
Fall 2012 | Al Quds University
Self Creation: Confession, Memoir, Autobiography
Spring, 2012 | UC Berkeley
Juicy, Juicy Scandal: Sex, Power, Cash and the Dynamics of Disclosure
Spring, 2012 | UC Berkeley
In Search of the Arab Awakening: The US and the Modern Middle East
Fall, 2011 | Al Quds University
From Terror to Counter-Terror: Human Rights in the Wake of 9/11
Fall, 2011 | Al Quds University
The Long Fact: A Workshop
Spring, 2011 | UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
War of Heroes, War of Machines: Atrocity, Total War and the Epic Imagination
Fall 2021 | UC Berkeley
Taking Stock of the Forever War: Global Jihad, War on Terror, American Power
Fall 2010 | Bard College
Power, Violence and Make Believe: Revealing Politics in Fiction
Fall 2009 | Bard College
Out of the Ruins: Rebuilding US Foreign Policy After Bush’s War on Terror
Spring 2009 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Dreaming Utopia: The Theory and Practice of Ideal Worlds
Fall 2007 | Bard College
Roguery, Debauchery and War: A Thieves’ Journey Through the Picaresque
Fall 2007 | Bard College
Dreaming Utopia: The Theory and Practice of Ideal Worlds
Fall 2008 | Bard College
Roguery, Debauchery and War: A Thieves’ Journey Through the Picaresque
Fall 2008 | Bard College
How To Tell The Story: Chekhov and the Depiction of Reality
Spring 2007 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Covering the Arc of Crisis: Policy Making and Reporting in Asia and the Middle East
Spring 2007 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Dostoevsky: The Novelist as Journalist
Spring 2006 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Covering Conflict in a Dangerous World: Crisis Management and American Power
Spring 2006 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Fidelity, Adultery, Promiscuity: In Search of Don Juan
Fall 2005 | Bard College
Terror, Torture and Truth: Human Rights after 9/11
Fall 2005 | Bard College
Reporting the Iraq War
Spring 2005 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Covering Conflict in an Age of Terror: Crisis Management and American Power
Spring 2004 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Covering Conflict in an Age of Terror: Crisis Management and American Power
Spring 2005 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
The Editor as God: Shaping the Words, Guiding the Story
Spring 2004 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
The Catastrophe of Knowledge: An Exploration of the Faust Legend
Fall 2003 | Bard College
The Politics of Terror: Confronting Violent Political Change
Fall 2003 | Bard College
Covering Catastrophe: The Management of Inernational Crisis
Spring 2003 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
The Politics of Terror: Writing About Violent Political Change
Spring 2003 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
The New World Horror Show: Covering the Crisis and Catastrophe in Foreign Affairs
Spring 2002 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
The Nonfiction Novella
Spring 2002 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Talk Talk, Fight Fight: Ending Conflict, Limiting Arms
Spring 2001 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
The Nonfiction Novella
Spring 2001 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Editing Workshop
Spring 2000 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Reporting on India, Pakistan, and Tibet: Covering Crisis in the Subcontinent
Spring 2000 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Nightmares: Covering Political Conflict and Global Catastrophe in the Next Millenium
Fall 1999 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Economic Chaos and its Bloody Repercussions: International Institutions and the Countries They Run
Spring 1999 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Wars, Coups and Revolutions: Political Violence and How to Write About It
Fall 1998 | UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
The Fog of Unknowing How perpetual ignorance shapes the never-ending war on terror
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By doubling down on Trump’s Big Lie that the election was stolen, Republicans are making their base angrier, more radical, and more likely to turn to violence.
Food Discussion with Cari Borja
Cari Borja and Mark Danner discuss food, including childhood memories related to food, keeping kosher, and favorite birthday meals.
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Mark Danner discusses his piece ‘Be Ready to Fight’ with fellow journalist and journalism professor David Barstow. Danner describes his experiences at the Capitol on January 6 and the violence he witnessed that day, and he elaborates the difficulties of covering the Trump presidency as a journalist.
Journalism in a Time of Crisis
The New York Review of Books presents “Journalism in a
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‘Be Ready to Fight’
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Trumpism is driven by cruelty and domination even as its rhetoric claims grievance and victimization. The attack on the Capitol showed that Donald Trump’s army of millions will not just melt away when he leaves office.
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Fact or Fiction: Conspiracy Theories and the Current Political Moment
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The Con He Rode In On
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How did President Obama deal with the
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Permanence (After Czeslaw Milosz)
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CSPAN – Talking Spiral With Brian Lamb
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Author: Zane Schwartz When will the war on terror be won?
The Real Trump
The New York Review of Books Reality Rebellion Mark Danner
Seeing the Twilight War: Human Rights and The 9/11 State of Emergency
Seeing the Twilight War Human Rights and The 9/11 State
In Memoriam: Jonathan Schell
Mark Danner reflects on the journalistic legacy of Jonathan Schell
On The Election
All American elections tend to be touted as historic, for all American culture tends toward the condition of hype. Flummoxing, then, to be confronted with a struggle for political power in which, for once, all is at stake. We have long since forfeited the words to confront it, rendering superlatives threadbare, impotent. No accident that among so many other things Donald J. Trump is the Candidate of Dead Words, spewing “fantastic” and “amazing” and “huge” in all directions, clogging the airtime broadcasters have lavished upon him with a deadening rhetoric reminiscent of the raving man hunched beside you on the bar stool.
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University
At the Carr Center’s Strategic Consequences of Torture conference in
The Forever War?
Author: Michael Ignatieff The battle against terrorism has become America’s forever
Your Call: Trapped in the Forever War
On the September 16th edition of Your Call,
Finding Oscar, Telluride, introduction by Mark Danner
Mark Danner introduces the film Finding Oscar, at the 2016
Telluride Film Festival 2016: Tribute to Pablo Larrain with Mark Danner and Gael Garcia Bernal
As a resident curator of the Telluride Film
Fighting terrorism — and the urge to ignore our basic American principles
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Your Call: Trapped in the Forever War
For the Friday media roundable on the August 5, 2016
The World Affairs Council – Mark Danner interviewed by Nancy Jarvis
Join the World Affairs Council and Mark Danner,
Spiral Talk & Interview with KPFA’s Linda Khoury *
In Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War, award-winning journalist Mark Danner
NYT: Letters to the Editor – Danner responds to Moyn review of Spiral
Author: Mark Danner To the Editor: That the war on terror
KQED Forum with Michael Krasny: How the U.S. Became Embroiled in the “Forever War”
Since 9/11, the United States has been led by
KPFA’s Up Front: The Forever War
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How America lost control in the endless spiral of global war
WNUR’s Chuck Mertz interviews Mark Danner about how
Why the War on Terror May Never End
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Endless War Watch, Summer 2016
Author: Samuel Moyn This Sunday the New York Times Book Review prints my all-too-brief
Mark Danner and Mitch Jesenich on KPFA’s “Letters & Politics”
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San Francisco Chronicle: Warring State
Author: Kevin Canfield As his second term in the Oval Office winds down,
Bay Area Book Festival – Mark Danner, interviewed by Robert Scheer
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Should and Will Guantanamo Close?
Panel Discussion, moderated by Mark Danner, on the future of
The Magic of Donald Trump
We are told again and again: his is the most improbable political story in decades, perhaps in history. And yet that a reality television megastar, as Trump might put it, could outpoll sixteen dimly to barely known politicians, some new faces, many also-rans, seems less than shocking. Did tens of millions ever cast their eyes on the junior senators from Florida or Tennessee or Texas, or the governor of Ohio, not the mention the ex-governors of Arkansas of Florida, or the ex-CEO of Hewlett Packard, before they chanced to mount the stage for a debate with Donald J. Trump last August, a television event that drew the unheard-of viewership of 24 million? Those 24 million tuned in to see trump. Only one man on stage gad a name as famous and by then it was in such disrepute that he had seen fit to replace it with an exclamation point on his campaign posters. 
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An exhibit and Q&A session with photographer Maggie Steber, moderated
Journalism as a 21st Century Career
English majors hear a lot of dire statements about the
The Rise of the Terror State: 9/11, the Arab Spring & the End of the Postwar Order
The Rise of the Terror State 9/11, the Arab Spring
Rethinking Washington’s Counterterrorism Strategy
Mark Danner discusses Washington’s Counterterrorism Strategy on
The Management of Savagery: The Islamic State, Extreme Violence, and Our Endless War *
Mark Danner delivers a talk on the Islamic State and
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ChinaFile Presents: Can the China Model Succeed? *
A conversation hosted by the Asia Society of New York,
Torture, Security and Law: Lessons for the Future
A symposium revisiting the torture controversies of the
State of Siege: Their Torture, and Ours
Revolutionary times are times of revelation: they uncover and flood with light what has long been darkly buried. Implicit in the above exchange between a kidnapped Philip Michael Santore (Yves Montand) and his masked Tupamaro inquisitor, Hugo (Jacques Weber), in Costa-Gavras’s , is the unassailable conviction that politics forms the hidden skeleton of our world. Anyone who can be bothered to dig beneath the surface quickly strikes his shovel against these grim, intractable bones, the ossified determinants of who holds power and who does not. Looming invisibly over the interrogation is Costa-Gavras, supremely aware that he wields in his lens a uniquely effective kind of shovel. Indeed, this to him is what the cinema
Double Blind
Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, the Al Qaeda terrorist with a $25 million bounty on his head, decided to show to the world videotapes of the planning and execution of his terror attacks, he delivered them to Michael Ware. Ware, a reporter for 
Standing Their Ground: A View Inside a Ukrainian Revolution
In November 2013, the Ukrainian government abruptly canceled plans to join the European Union, a shock for citizens who dreamed of escaping Russian domination to become part of the West. Thus began one of the most inspiring revolutions of modern times. Evgeny Afineevsky’s documentary WINTER ON FIRE follows, from week one, the Ukrainian protests known as the Maidan. For three months, the Ukrainian people—800,000 at the demonstration’s heights—took to the streets to protest. The protestors stayed even as government forces turned to violence—on one day, the police killed 50 citizens—remaining until Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was removed from office in February 2014. Mark Danner spoke to Afineevsky about the movement’s geopolitical implications and the film’s on-the-spot portrayal of revolution, political violence and deep cultural change.
Double Blind *
When Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, the Al Qaeda terrorist with a
The Secret State: The Rise of National Surveillance and the Conflict Between Freedom and Security — Bay Area Book Festival Panel
The Secret State: The Rise of
Transforming Terror: A Bay Area Book Festival Panel
Transforming Terror Transforming Terror Mark Danner, Claudia Bernardi,
Your Call: Democracy vs National Security
Mark Danner and Carlotta Gall discuss coverage
Oakland Book Festival: Fiction and War
Panel discussion with Mark Danner and fiction
State of Seige: Their Torture and Ours
Revolutionary times are times of revelation: they uncover and flood
ISI Burke Society Debate
Mark Danner debates former Bush Administration speech
Berkeley Law Symposium: Torture, Security and Law
Berkeley Law Symposium on Torture, Security and Law
‘Guantánamo Diary,’ by Mohamedou Ould Slahi
on or about Sept. 11, 2001, American character changed. What Americans had proudly flaunted as “our highest values” were now judged to be luxuries that in a new time of peril the country could ill afford. Justice, and its cardinal principle of innocent until proven guilty, became a risk, its indulgence a weakness. Asked recently about an innocent man who had been tortured to death in an American “black site” in Afghanistan, former Vice President Dick Cheney did not hesitate. “I’m more concerned,” he said, “with bad guys who got out and released than I am with a few that, in fact, were innocent.” In this new era in which all would be sacrificed to protect the country, torture and even murder of the innocent must be counted simply “collateral damage.
The CIA’s Willingness To Lie About Our Torture Regime: The Architecture Of Unbelief
Author: Charles P Pierce In the most recent New York Review Of
The CIA: The Devastating Indictment
Hugh Eakin: Nearly six years ago, you published the secret report by the International Committee of the Red Cross documenting the CIA’s torture of more than a dozen “high-value” detainees. And now we have the Senate’s extensive investigation of the torture program itself. What are some of the most revealing findings of the Senate report?
Mark Danner: Bush Lied About the Torture of Prisoners
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From Bard’s Human Rights Project website, “Nuruddin Farah is an
KPFK: Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Mark Danner discusses the creation of the Islamic State with
Hiding in Plain Sight: An Evening with Nuruddin Farah and Mark Danner *
Nurrudin Farah will read from his new book, Hiding in Plain
How the US Created the Islamic State
In this collaboration with VICE News and the
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MacArthur Lecture at Bard College
Mark Danner delivers his MacArthur lecture, “Terror, Torture, Drones:
MacArthur Fellows Forum: Terror, Torture, Drones: Taking Stock of the Forever War
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Rosewater Conversation at the Telluride Film Festival
Mark Danner discusses the film, Rosewater with Jon Stewart, Maziar
How Robert Gates Got Away With It
Early 2007: American troops are pinned down in the fourth year of a losing war in Iraq and in the fifth of an increasingly desperate one in Afghanistan, crises that still loom over the country and its foreign policy more than half a dozen years later, as Iraq, beset by a jihadist insurgency that sprang from the American invasion, splinters into pieces..
Warring with Words: Narrative and Metaphor in Politics
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As Iraq Unravels the Neocons are Revived
Mark Danner on Background Briefing with Ian Masters, June 22nd 2014. Mark
Mark Danner “Masakra w El Mozote”
Mark Danner “Masakra w El Mozote” Mark Danner describes
Wars, Terror and the Limits of Reportage *
Mark Danner spoke at the Warsaw Book Fair on May
Dialogue on Reporting and El Mozote *
A dialogue on reporting and El Mozote with Agnieszka Wojcinska
On Ryszard Kapuscinski: Thoughts at the Kapuscinski Prize in Warsaw
Mark Danner speaking in Warsaw, Poland for the Kapuscinski
Masakra, czyli ostrzezenie
Author: Katarzyna Brejwo Related Content: Mark Danner “Masakra w El Mozote”
Mark Danner discusses El Mozote with Students in Warsaw.
Mark Danner discusses El Mozote and the
Mark Danner discusses the Massacre of El Mozote in Warsaw
Mark Danner discusses the Massacre of El
“State Counterterror and Human Rights” at the Sakharov Center
Mark Danner speaks with Andrei Soldatov, Alexander Tcherkasov,
After the Wars of Terror: The US ‘Light Footprint’ in the Post-9/11 World *
Lecture: “After the Wars of Terror: The US ‘Light Footprint’
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Cheney: ‘The More Ruthless the Better’
Self-directed, restrained, disciplined, Cheney was concerned not with words but with power and what it brought. In the aftermath of September 11, the silent vice-president, serving a fledgling president who had won half a million fewer votes than his Democratic opponent, who knew little of the workings of government and less of the world, and who had just failed to prevent the most damaging attack on the homeland in the history of the United States…
Mark Danner on Oppenheimer’s ‘The Act of Killing’ *
Mark Danner discusses Joshua Oppenheimer’s ‘The Act of Killing’ documentary
Kronos Quartet Symposium: Centennial Anniversary of WWI
Cal Performances Kronos Quartet Symposium on the Centennial Anniversary
Iraq: What’s Known, What’s Unknown, What We Don’t Want to Know
“The journalist Mark Danner, who covered the war and is
He Remade Our World
Almost exactly a decade ago, Vice President Dick Cheney greeted President George W. Bush one morning in the Oval Office with the news that his administration was about to implode. Or not quite: Cheney let the president know that something was deeply wrong, though it would take Bush two more days of increasingly surprising revelations..
Friday Media Roundtable: Protests in Turkey and the CIA’s torture program
“We’ll discuss media coverage of Senator Dianne Feinstein
In the Darkness of Dick Cheney
No turning back would be a good slogan for Dick Cheney. His memoirs are remarkable—and he shares this with Rumsfeld—for an almost perfect lack of second-guessing, regret, or even the mildest reconsideration. Decisions are now as they were then. If the Mission Accomplished moment in 2003 seemed at the time to be the height of American power and authority, then so it will remain—unquestioned, unaltered, uninflected by subsequent public events that show it quite clearly to have been nothing of the kind. “If I had to do it over again,” says Cheney, “I’d do it in a minute.”
Rumsfeld: Why We Live in His Ruins
On a lovely morning in May 2004, as occupied Iraq slipped deeper into a chaos of suicide bombings, improvised explosive attacks, and sectarian warfare, the American commander in Baghdad, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, together with his superior, General John Abizaid of Central Command, arrived at the White House for an appointment with the president.
Donald Rumsfeld Revealed
It is a striking thought: night after night, the secretary of defense of the world’s most powerful country retires to his bed haunted not by some threatening, well-armed foe but by “a failure of imagining what might happen in the world.”
Mark Danner discusses Donald Rumsfeld on This is Hell! with Chuck Mertz
Mark Danner reviews the Donald Rumsfeld decade
Rumsfeld’s War and Its Consequences Now
Trust brings trust, confidence builds on confidence: the young inexperienced president, days before American bombs begin falling on Afghanistan, wants a “creative” plan to invade Iraq, developed “outside the normal channels”; the old veteran defense secretary, in a rare moment of weakness, craves human comfort and understanding. And yet they’d hardly known one another, these two, before George W. Bush chose him for his secretary of defense nine months before.
Mark Danner on “Rumsfeld’s War and Its Consequences Now”
Mark Danner discusses “Rumsfeld’s War and Its Consequences Now,” his
Sunday Morning Edition!: Writing from Past This is Hell! Guests
Author: Chuck Mertz Chuck Mertz notes Mark Danner’s article, “Rumsfeld’s
Das syrische Dilemma
Originally published in The New York Review of Books, “Syria: Is There a Solution?” was reprinted in the German magazine Lettre International.
Syria: Is There a Solution?
To many Americans, Iraq now seems little more than a bad dream, best left unmentioned. Still, as the debate in the United States has turned to “the Syria dilemma” next door—and, more recently, to the US’s obligation to “stand up…for the interests of all” by enforcing President Obama’s declared “red line” against the use of chemical weapons there—the shadow of Iraq falls darkly over the landscape.
Mark Danner on Syria: Interview with Chuck Mertz
Mark Danner discusses American and Iraqi involvement in the Syrian
Mark Danner on the Syrian dilemma: Truthdig Radio
Mark Danner interviewed on Truthdig Radio, KPFK 90.7
HuffPost Live: The Anniversary of September 11
Mark Danner joined HuffPost Live’s Cocktail Chatter at 3pm EST on September
The Ghosts of Interventions Past
Mark Danner speaks with Ian Masters for “Background Briefing,” KPFK
Danner, DeLillo, and Morris on the Kennedy Assassination *
Mark Danner in conversation with Don DeLillo and Errol Morris
Q&A with Errol Morris: The Unknown Known
Danner ErrolMorris Q&A Telluride2013 small – Broadband from Mark Danner on Vimeo.
A Tribute to Mohammad Rasoulof
Danner Rasoulof Telluride2013 from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner leads a
Rithy Panh’s The Missing Picture
Danner RithyPanh Telluride from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner discusses the
A Tribute to Mohammad Rasoulof
Danner Rasoulof Telluride2013 from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner leads
Agnieszka Holland’s Burning Bush
Mark Danner speaks with Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland about
Don DeLillo and Mark Danner: The Zapruder Film
Mark Danner speaks with author Don
Through the Looking Glass
Mark Danner spoke with Errol Morris about his latest film, The
Where’s the deep-fried beef?
Author: Leah Garchik Writer, journalist, educator and MacArthur grant winner
The New York Review Abroad: Fifty Years of International Reportage
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What is Terrorism?
Mark Danner speaks with host Dave Iverson on Forum, KQED
Milosz Festival Debate: Evil — experience and literature
The 3rd annual Milosz Festival was held in Krakow, Poland
Milosz in the Land of Ulro
The 3rd annual Milosz Festival was held in Krakow,
Fact: The United States Tortured People
Mark Danner interviewed on Truthdig Radio, KPFK
How the U.S. Sought Revenge Through Torture
Mark Danner speaks with Ian Masters for
Robert Silvers: Interviews
Audio Recordings of these interviews can be found below: Interview
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As the New York Review of Books turns 50,
In Conversation: Robert Silvers
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50 Years: The New York Review of Books
On February 5, 2013, The New York Review
Warring with Words: A Conversation with Mark Danner and Michael Hanne
Mark Danner speaking about the use of narrative and metaphor
Context and a Movie: Zero Dark Thirty
Mark Danner and New York Times film critic A.O.
The Best American Magazine Writing 2012
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The Efficacy of Torture: In Movies and in Practice
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How, and What, Obama Won
Clamorous and overpowering, campaign images are vivid as dreams and vanish as quickly. Was it real, that huge white aircraft hangar in Columbus, Ohio, the night before the election? I’d raced there from downtown Columbus’s Nationwide Arena, where President Obama, introduced by Bruce Springsteen and Jay-Z, his voice hoarse and his face worn, had addressed fifteen thousand or so enthusiastic, mostly young supporters.
Mark Danner, Live from Ramallah: Interview with Chuck Mertz
Mark Danner calls in from Ramallah to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian
The Politics of Fear
Amid the clamorous controversies of this election campaign, what strikes one here on the West Bank of the Jordan is the silences. Though the issue of Palestine promises to have a much more vital part in the volatile, populist politics of the Middle East”s new democracies—whose vulnerable governments actually must take some account of what moves ordinary people—here in Ramallah we have heard virtually nothing substantive about it, apart, that is, from Mitt Romney”s repeated charge that President Obama, presumably in extracting from Israel a hard-fought ten-month freeze on settlement building early on in his administration, had “thrown Israel under the bus.”
US Elections and the Forever War – Torture, Drones and the Age of Frozen Scandal
Mark Danner speaking at the Danish Institute for International Studies
The Act of Killing: Joshua Oppenheimer and Mark Danner in conversation with Peter Sellars
The Act of Killing: Joshua Oppenheimer in
Injustice, Reconciliation, and Cinema
Telluride Sunday Seminar: Injustice, Reconciliation, and Cinema from Mark
Six Powerful Voices: Deep Inside Israel’s Shin Bet
The first duty of Shin Bet, Israel’s feared internal intelligence service, is to be invisible. Its very motto, “Magen VeLo Yera’e,” brands this shadowy organization as the “Defender that shall not be seen.” So it is more than a bit startling to find a documentary film built around interviews with Shin Bet’s surviving directors—not one but all six: Ami Ayalon, Avi Dichter, Yuval Diskin, Carmi Gillon, Yaakov Peri and Avraham Shalom. Persuading these feared professional spooks to sit for on-camera interviews was unprecedented; extracting the details they tell, not only about their shadow war with Palestinian terrorists but their bitter conflicts with Israeli politicians, was historical and, as the story unfolds, increasingly shocking. I sat down with Dror Moreh, director of The Gatekeepers to ask him how he did it.
Living with the New Normal: Human Rights, U.S. Foreign Policy, and the 2012 Elections
Mark Danner delivers the 13th annual Helen Ingram
The Twilight of Responsibility: Torture and the Higher Deniability
A riddle wrapped in mystery inside an enigma” — Churchill’s comment about Soviet motivations floated into my mind as I read Philip Zelikow’s elegant and powerful analysis of American “Codes of Conduct” during our Twilight War. We as Americans stand today before a terrible and indisputable fact—that, as Mr. Zelikow puts it, “for the first time in American history, leaders of the U.S. government carefully devised ways and means to torment enemy captives.” And though we know an immense amount about how this came to happen—the plot lines of who did what to whom, who wrote the memos and who was “tormented” and how, who was smashed repeatedly against walls, who was crushed into tiny confinement boxes, who was waterboarded and how many times—we know relatively little about how the momentous decision came to be made.
Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong
Raymond Bonner discusses his new book with Mark Danner, in
Remembering Marie Colvin
Mark Danner interviewed on KCBS radio about the
The Massacre at El Mozote, 30 Years On
Mark Danner discusses El Mozote’s 30th anniversary, on
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values (#30)
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Salvaging Some of the Grace
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Torture: Power, Democracy, and the Human Body
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Now That We’ve Tortured: Image, Guilt, Consequence
Let me begin with what today has been a key word: amnesia. It is a striking word, and it makes a provocative point. When it comes to torture as practiced by the United States during the war on terror, there is certainly amnesia and an ongoing quest on the part of some to encourage and cultivate it.
Reporting on Human Rights: the Responsibilities of Journalists and NGOs
Mark Danner at the Yale Law School Alumni Weekend, 2011.
Codes of Conduct for a Twilight War: The Frankel Lecture at the University of Houston
The 16th Annual Frankel Lecture at the University
Mark Danner discusses 9/11 with Chuck Mertz
Mark Danner discusses the anniversary of September
September 12 – Saudi Warning to U.S. on Palestinian Statehood and a Real Look Into 9/11; Are Jobs Obsolete?
Mark Danner speaks with Ian Masters on Background Briefing. Related
After September 11: Our State of Exception
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.
From Grizzly Peak: Living in Milosz’s House (part 2)
Mark Danner interviewed about Czeslaw Milosz at
Ten Years Later: America’s Role in the World
A decade after the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil,
40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering
40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering Chez
Mark Danner at the Winnipeg Human Rights Museum
Untitled from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner interviewed by Isabelle Masson at
Czeslaw Milosz Centennial Celebration
A centennial celebration of Czeslaw Milosz at
Music in a Time of War *
Mark Danner and Peter Sellars discuss George Crumb’s “Winds of
UC Riverside Commencement 2011- Remake This America: It Needs It
Untitled from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner speaking at the humanities commencement
Ojai Festival 2011- Music in the Time of War Symposium
Deeply passionate about music, politics and theater, Peter
Man behind Srebrenica Massacre faces Court
Mark Danner speaks about the Mladic arrest on ABC News
Unacknowledged legislators read culture like a text
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/unacknowledged-legislators-read-culture-like-a-text/story-e6frg8n6-1226062924452 WHEN historians look back at the interregnum of reason
Debunking the Bin Laden Torture Myth
Mark Danner on Truth Dig Radio, KPFK. Related Content: The
The Fate of Long- Form Journalism in the New Media Age
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4-jSfn0gRE Mark Danner in conversation with Gerald Marzorati
Torture: Once anathema, now a choice
In the weeks after 9/11, Americans began torturing prisoners. At
From Grizzly Peak: Living in Milosz’s house (part 1)
Mark Danner interviewed about Czeslaw Milosz
Mark Danner on Obama and Foreign Policy. Beijing, China
Mark Danner lectures on Obama and Foreign
Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004): A Centenary Celebration of the Poetry of UC Berkeley’s Nobel Laureate
Mark Danner speaking at the Centenary Celebration of
Mark Danner Speaks on KQED’s Haiti Election Forum
Michael Krasny of KQED hosts a forum on the outcome
Nuclear Weapons, Arms Control & US Policy
Untitled from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Related Content: Nuclear Weapons, Arms Control
Mark Danner discusses Libya and the Arab Spring on NPR
Mark Danner speaks with Ian Masters of
Libya and the Arab Spring on KPFA’s Sunday Show
The Sunday Show with Philip Maldari – March 27, 2011
Haunt of Last Nightfall (Music for Mozote)
Author: David Little (composer) David T. Little premiers “Haunt of last
American Soldiers and Torture
Mark Danner in conversation with Joshua Phillips at
Can Mainstream Journalism Survive? Making the Online Times Pay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNPcQdNr7pU Mark Danner in conversation with Michael Pollan
Haiti Stories – Istwa Ayiti Conference at the UCLA Fowler Museum
Untitled from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Related Content: Haiti’s Earthquake and its Aftermath
Mark Danner: Writing about Politics and War
Author: Kelly Knaub On a sunny, brisk afternoon in November,
Terror, Torture, Obama & Us: Trapped in a Forever War?
mms://204.213.244.104/TRMSVOD/6893-1-markdannerlecture.wmv Mark Danner speaking at Amherst College, Massachusetts. Related
Interview with Kelly Knaub, NYU Journalism Student
Interview with Kelly Knaub, NYU Journalism Student. Related Content: Mark
From Anathema to Policy Choice: Torture, Terror, and the American Way of Law
http://media.law.berkeley.edu/qtmedia/Miller_Institute/20101104_TortureSymposium/02_MarkDanner_Part1.mp4 Mark Danner speaking at the Boalt Law School
Bodies on the Line Symposium, New York
Watch the full episode. See more Thirteen Forum. Claudia Bernardi, artist,
The Marfa Dialogues, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
Hamilton Fish and Mark Danner at the Marfa Dialogues from Ballroom Marfa on Vimeo.
Don DeLillo in conversation with Mark Danner
Mark Danner speaks with Don DeLillo at the
Santa Fe Radio Café with Mary-Charlotte
Mark Danner speaks with Mary-Charlotte on Santa Fe
Mark Danner speaks at City Lights Books in San Francisco*
Mark Danner discusses his book, Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence
Naturalizing the State of Exception: Terror, Fear and the War Without End – The 2010 Tanner Lectures on Human Values (discussion)*
Mark Danner discusses Part II of the 2010 Tanner Lectures
Naturalizing the State of Exception: Terror, Fear and the War Without End – The 2010 Tanner Lectures on Human Values (lecture) *
Mark Danner delivers Part II of The Tanner Lectures on
Imposing the State of Exception: Constitutional Dictatorship, Torture and Us – The 2010 Tanner Lectures on Human Values (discussion)*
Mark Danner discusses Part I of the 2010 Tanner Lectures
Imposing the State of Exception: Constitutional Dictatorship, Torture and Us – The 2010 Tanner Lectures on Human Values *
Mark Danner delivers Part I of the 2010 Tanner Lectures
Mark Danner discusses Ryszard Kapuscinski on The Book Show, ABC Radio National, Australia
Mark Danner discusses the work and legacy of
Mark Danner on Letters to Washington, KPFK
Mark Danner discusses his book, Stripping Bare the Body:
Mark Danner speaks at Authors@Google *
Mark Danner visits the Googleplex to discuss his book, Stripping
Pondering the Topography: Over Queenstown, New Zealand
Mark Danner skydiving over Queenstown, New Zealand from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark
Mark Danner on ABC Radio National Rear Vision
Haiti is a nation best known for its political
Violence is a Means and an End
Author: Antony Loewenstein Leading US journalist Mark Danner calls a
Mark Danner on SBS World View
Drawing on his knowledge of the problems the have
Mark Danner on ABC Radio National PM with Mark Colvin
Mark Danner discusses Guantanamo, torture, “enhanced interrogation techniques”
Mark Danner in Conversation with Richard Fidler
Mark Danner discusses Haiti, Bosnia, Iraq, and a surreal
Mark Danner in conversation with Geoffrey Garrett, US Studies Centre, Sydney
Mark Danner in Conversation with Geoffrey Garrett U.S. Studies
Mark Danner in conversation with Sandy McCutcheon, Brisbane, Australia
Mark Danner in conversation with Sandy McCutcheon at Avid
Mark Danner on The Conversation Hour with Jon Faine, Australia
US journalist Mark Danner has covered foreign affairs, politics
Mark Danner in conversation with Fran Kelly, The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne
Mark Danner in conversation with Fran Kelly, The Wheeler
Mark Danner on RadioNational Breakfast with Fran Kelly
Mark discusses his book, Stripping Bare the Body, with Fran Kelly
Witness to Horror
Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War by Mark Danner
Why Is Haiti Poor? Politics, Disaster and the Predatory State (No Video)
Mark Danner discusses the disastrous earthquake in Haiti, showing how
Stripping Bare the Body (Australian edition)
Stripping Bare the Body shows at close hand how terrorism works
Media Roundtable: State of the Union, Haiti and the London Summit
Mark Danner, Nancy Youssef and Charles Homans discuss President
Looking Back on the Age of Genocide
BRIDGET CONLEY-ZILKIC: Welcome to this week’s episode of Voices
To Heal Haiti, Look to History, Not Nature
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.
Haiti’s Earthquake and its Aftermath
Mark Danner discusses Haiti after the earthquake on GRITtv
Don’t blame the Haitians for doubting US promises
The title of American journalist Mark Danner’s recent book, Stripping Bare
Mark Danner speaking with Enrique Cerna on “Conversations at KCTS 9”
Mark Danner speaks with Enrique Cerna on KCTS 9,
Constructing Myths of America with Mark Danner
Constructing Myths of America with Mark Danner from Mark Danner on Vimeo.
Escaping Bush’s State of Exception: Torture and Truth, Obama and Us
Mark Danner delivers the Irving Howe Memorial Lecture from Mark Danner on Vimeo.
Mark Danner interviewed by students at the University of South Carolina-Beaufort *
Mark Danner interviewed by students following his lecture discussion his
Mark Danner speaks at University of South Carolina-Beaufort
Mark Danner speaking at the University of South Carolina-Beaufort from Mark
The Naked Country
What’s the (noncrass, noncommercial) point of collecting war essays? Vindication?
Stripping the Body Bare: Mark Danner speaks at the World Affairs Council, San Francisco
Stripping the Body Bare: Mark Danner at the World
Best American Political Writing 2009
Buy this book at: Amazon.com Barnes & Noble
Danner Challenges ‘NYT’ Choice of Book Reviewer in Lengthy Letter — Packer Responds
Author: Greg Mitchell NEW YORK It’s nothing new for aggrieved authors
Mark Danner versus George Packer, and the nature of a bad review
It sucks getting a bad review in the New York
Stripping Bare the Body: An Exchange
Author: Mark Danner and George Packer Letter by Mark Danner
Stripping Bare the Body: An Exchange
[Letter by Mark Danner in respone to George Packer’s review of Stripping
Packer vs. Danner
Author: Spencer Ackerman I recently reviewed Mark Danner’s collection of
Plato – Leontius’s Corpses
Leontius, the son of Aglaion, was going up from the
Stripping Bare the Body – Six Questions for Mark Danner
As a war correspondent, Mark Danner knows few equals. He
Stripping Bare the Body – Six Questions for Mark Danner
As a war correspondent, Mark Danner knows few equals. He
America’s Dark Side
STRIPPING BARE THE BODY Politics Violence War By Mark Danner
Mark Danner Speaking at the 2009 Wellfleet Meetings *
The 2009 Wellfleet Meetings Mark Danner Introduced by Robert Jay
Heart of the Matter
STRIPPING BARE THE BODY Politics Violence War By Mark Danner
Mark Danner on Bill Moyers Journal
Mark Danner on Bill Moyers Journal from Mark Danner on Vimeo. October 16,
Stripping Bare the Body: An evening with Mark Danner and Amy Goodman
Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War — An
“Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War” Mark Danner on Democracy Now!
Mark Danner interviewed by Amy Goodman on “Democracy Now” about
Bush’s Torture Rationale Debunked
Author: Dan Froomkin Abu Zubaida was the alpha and omega of
White House Watched
Author: Dan Froomkin Posted at 10:22 AM ET, 06/26/2009 Today’s
¿Cuándo debe hacerse público lo confidencial?
Author: Steffen Leidel El día en el que el periodista
http://markdanner.com/admin/orations/a-cua-ndo-debe-hacerse-pa-blico-lo-confidencial
Entrevista con Mark Danner sobre el secreto informe del Comité
Investigating CIA Abuses
Investigating CIA Abuses – Mark Danner on “On Point,” WBUR
The Fog of War: Film, Politics and History
The Fog of War: Film, Politics and History from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark
The Red Cross Report and What it Means (No Video)
The Red Cross Report and What It Means from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark
Cheney, Obama, and National Security
Mark Danner and David Gergen on Anderson Cooper 360,
Torture and Security: The Speeches of President Obama and Dick Cheney
Mark Danner and David Gergen on Anderson Cooper 360,
Truth-telling in Eliasson’s ‘Parliament of Reality’: On Music and Torture (No Video)
Of Torture and Music from Mark Danner on Vimeo. A talk by Mark
The Red Cross Report, The Torture Memos, and Political Accountability
Mark Danner interviewed by Harry Kreisler, “Conversations with History,” the
Tortured Reports: Mark Danner and Dafna Linzer
Tortured Reports: Mark Danner and Dafna Linzer from Mark Danner on Vimeo. A conversation
Torture on Trial (No Video)
A documentary for LinkTV with featured commentators Mark Danner and
Torture: What is to be Done, Now?
Torture: What is to be Done, Now? from Mark Danner on Vimeo. A
The Paradoxes of Torture
The Paradoxes of Torture: Mark Danner in discussion with
The Paradoxes of Torture: What Do We Do Now? (web supplement)
The Paradoxes of Torture: What Do We Do Now?
The Red Cross Torture Report: What it Means
When it comes to torture, it is not what we did but what we are doing. It is not what happened but what is happening and what will happen. In our politics, torture is not about whether or not our polity can “let the past be past”—whether or not we can “get beyond it and look forward
Paradoxes of Torture and Scandal
The first paradox of the torture scandal is that it is not about things we didn’t know but about things we did know and did nothing about. Beginning more than a half-dozen years ago, Bush administration officials broke the law and did repugnant things to detainees under their control. But if you think that the remedy is simple and clear — that all officials who broke the law should be tried and punished — then ask yourself what exactly the political elite of the country has been doing for the last five years. Or what it has not been doing. And why.
Mark Danner Schools David Gergen on CIA Torture
Author: Brad Jacobson During a recent segment on CNN’s AC 360,
Jon Stewart on the Red Cross torture report
Author: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Related Content: Red Cross
Seperating Truths from Lies
Author: Dan Froomkin Time and again, George W. Bush’s White
US-Folter: Stimmen von dunklen Orten
Wir glauben, dass Zeit und Wahlen unsere gefallene Welt reinwaschen werden, aber das werden sie nicht. Seit November scheinen sich George W. Bush und seine Regierung mit zunehmender Geschwindigkeit von uns entfernt zu haben, ein dunkler Komet auf dem Weg zum Ende des Universums.
David Axelrod discusses the Torture Memos and the New York Review
Author: Face the Nation Related Content: Rahm Emanuel discusses the
Rahm Emanuel discusses the New York Review on ABC’s This Week
Author: George Stephanopoulos Related Content: David Axelrod discusses the Torture
Emanuel addresses torture memos
Author: Daniel Libit White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel
Torture Memo Backlash
COOPER: Well, backlash tonight: new pushback to President Obama’s release
Red Cross Report: Medics Grossly Violated Ethics
Mark Danner interviewed about the ICRC Report by Michele Norris, NPR
Medically Assisted Torture
Author: EDITORIAL There was a great deal to be troubled by
US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites
We think time and elections will cleanse our fallen world but they will not. Since November, George W. Bush and his administration have seemed to be rushing away from us at accelerating speed, a dark comet hurtling toward the ends of the universe.
CIA Closing Secret Overseas Sites for Terror Detainees
Author: Scott Shane WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency announced
Report Calls CIA Detainee Treatment Inhuman
Author: Joby Warrick and Julie Tate Medical officers who oversaw
Report Outlines Medical Workers’ Role in Torture
Author: Scott Shane WASHINGTON — Medical personnel were deeply involved
Black Sites Exposed
Embedded Video: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the
Now that We’ve Tortured: Violence, Morality and Politics after Bush
Now that We’ve Tortured: Violence, Morality and Politics After Bush from Mark
Torture at the “Black Sites”: An Interview with Mark Danner (No Video)
Torture at the “Black Sites”: An Interview with Mark Danner from Mark
American Torture: Danner v. Cheney
Author: Charles Kaiser When the history of this era is
New Details of Torture Allegations Spark New Debate
Author: Cindy Saine Washington New grim details have emerged of
Torture at the “Black Sites”: Mark Danner with Chuck Mertz
Mark Danner speaks about his New York Review of
Tales from Torture’s Dark World
Tom Parker, et al. March 20, 2009 LETTERS On Torture
Attorney General Indicates Reluctance to Examine Detainee Treatment
Author: Keith Perine Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. signaled Wednesday that the Justice
Bush Lied About Torture
Mark Danner interviewed about the ICRC Report by Amy Goodman,
Torture at the “Black Sites”: Mark Danner on KQED Forum
Mark Danner interviewed by Michael Krasny on KQED Forum Related
Mark Danner: Bush Lied About Torture of Prisoners
We move on to a breaking story, the International Committee of the Red Cross concluding in a secret report, yes, it was two years ago that the Bush administration’s treatment of prisoners “constituted torture” in violation of the Geneva Conventions—the findings based on interviews with prisoners once held in the CIA’s secret black sites.
Revealed: the secret report that details abuse of terror suspects
Author: David Usborne Interrogation techniques used by the US on
Danner: Revealing The Truth About Torture Is ‘Debilitated…By The Practices Of The American Press’
Author: Matt Corley On Sunday, journalist Mark Danner revealed a previously secret
The Man Who Discovered the Secret Torture Papers
Author: Scott Horton The explosive secret Red Cross report on
Cleanup Task for a Shining City
Author: Anne Applebaum “America is a shining city upon a
The Man Who Discovered the Secret Torture Papers
Mark Danner interviewed by Scott Horton about the ICRC Report
Torture at the “Black Sites”
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Mark
Torture and the Press (No Video)
Mark Danner interviewed on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” about the ICRC
The Red Cross on Torture
Author: Emily Bazelon (the XX Factor) We knew, thanks to Jane
Red Cross report says detainees at CIA ‘black sites’ were tortured
Author: Jonathan Adams The International Committee of the Red Cross
Call It Torture
Author: Dan Froomkin Here’s another good reason to have some
Red Cross Described ‘Torture’ at CIA Jails
Author: Joby Warrick, Peter Finn, and Julie Tate The International
Red Cross Report: CIA Tortured Terror Suspects
Author: AP Filed at 2:54 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) —
American Power & The Crisis Over Iraq (transcript)
STEVE WASSERMAN: My name is Steve Wasserman. I’m editor of
Shedding Light on the CIA’s “Black Sites”
Related Content: US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites (No
Tales from Torture’s Dark World
On a bright sunny day two years ago, President George W. Bush strode into the East Room of the White House and informed the world that the United States had created a dark and secret universe to hold and interrogate captured terrorists.
US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites (No Video)
US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner
“The Judge and the General”: A Discussion of the Film (No Video)
“The Judge and the General”: A Discussion of the film
On Ideology and Its Delusions: Mark Danner Debates Bernard Henri-Lévy
On Ideology and Its Delusions: Mark Danner Debates Bernard Henri-Lévy from Mark
Bernard-Henri Lévy Faces off With Mark Danner on the Forces of Good and Evil
Author: LaNew York-aise Do we inhabit a post-ideological world? That
Call it What You Like – this is Hell
Author: Peter Conrad Mark Danner exposes the double speak that
A Historic Day (No Video)
A Historic Day: Darryl Pinckney and Mark Danner on Barack
On Dick Cheney
It made few headlines when Dick Cheney, in the last days of his vice-presidency, dismissed as a caricature the idea that he was “a Darth Vader type-personality”.
Frozen Scandal
Scandal is our growth industry. Revelation of wrongdoing leads not to definitive investigation, punishment, and expiation but to more scandal.
Obama & Sweet Potato Pie
ou would think first of all of a village fair: the entire community of Germantown, Northwest Philly, taking itself up on the brightest of bright sunny fall days and moving en masse, clumps of people—groups of young men in the obligatory hoodies and low-riding jeans, moms pushing strollers, dads lugging car seats, and everywhere children, from toddlers on up, being pulled along (“You’ll remember this all your life!”)—almost all of them African-American and all melding together, as they crowded toward the entrance to Vernon Park, into a full running, laughing stream.
Obama’s Victory: Media Roundtable with Mark Danner and Betsy Reed, interviewed by Sandip Roy (No Video)
Obama’s Victory and the Future: Media Roundtable with Mark Danner,
2008: The Weight of the Past
anning across the faces of the country”s leaders gathered in the Cabinet Room to confront the “financial crisis” in late September, the camera”s eye moves from the President—looking tired, shrunken, desiccated—to his Treasury secretary and other powerful advisers, and then slowly makes its way down and around the long Cabinet table, trailing over the familiar waxen features of the barons of the Senate and the House, lingering for a moment on the self-consciously resolute face of the white-haired Senator John McCain, and finally reaches the table”s end where it settles at last on the figure of a lean, solitary black man slumped in his seat.
On Segur’s “Defeat: Napoleon’s Russian Campaign”
Some stories, ancient and eternal, are inscribed in the world. The Fall of the Hero is one such, an endlessly reenacted drama that turns on the precariousness of greatness and its inevitable overreaching.
Sweet Potato Pie in Philly (Web Dispatch)
You would think first of all of a village fair: the entire community of Germantown, Northwest Philly, taking itself up on the brightest of bright sunny fall days and moving en masse, clumps of people—groups of young men in the obligatory hoodies and low-riding jeans, moms pushing strollers, dads lugging car seats, and everywhere children, from toddlers on up, being pulled along (“You’ll remember this all your life!”)—almost all of them African-American and all melding together, as they crowded toward the entrance to Vernon Park, into a full running, laughing stream.
The New York Review of Books Election Tour (No Video)
The New York of Review of Books Election Tour, Cambridge,
Bard College
Bard College Related Content: MacArthur Lecture at Bard College New
Tomdispatch
Tomdispatch Related Content: The World According to TomDispatch: America and
The Consequences to Come: American Power after Bush
Buy this book at: Amazon.com Includes Mark Danner’s essay,
Defeat: Napoleon’s Russian Campaign
Buy this book at: Amazon.com Read Mark’s Introduction:
The Consequences to Come: A Discussion of the Election with Mark Danner, Joan Didion, Darryl Pinckney, and Ronald Dworkin (No Video)
The Consequences to Come from Mark Danner on Vimeo. A discussion of the 2008
Weapons of Mass Destruction and Other Imaginative Acts
scandal is our growth industry. In our era, revelation of wrongdoing leads not to definitive investigation, punishment and expiation but to more scandal.
The Media, Accountability and the Iraq War
Live Streaming by Ustream.TV A panel discussion at the 2008
President Reagan and the World
Buy this book at: Amazon.com Includes transcript of discussion
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology
Buy this book at: Amazon.com Blurb: From Hannah Arendt’s
Kosovo: Contending Voices on Balkan Intervention
Buy this book at: Amazon.com Blurb: Powerful commentary
The Best American Political Writing 2006
Buy this book at: Amazon.com Blurb: The annual
The Best American Essays 2007
Buy this book at: Amazon.com Includes Mark Danner’s essay,
What Orwell Didn’t Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics
Buy this book at: Amazon.com Published by Public Affairs,
Mission Unaccomplished: Tom Dispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters
Buy this book at: Amazon.com A collection of remarkably
“The Salvador Option”: Iraq, Memory, and the Death Squad War
‘The Salvadoran Option’: Iraq, Memory, and the Death Squad War from Mark
Taking Stock of the Terror War
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.
Beyond Endless War: Iraq, the War on Terror, and the Future of American Power.
Beyond Endless War from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Fellowship Lecture by Mark Danner
Taking Stock of the Terror War
Taking Stock of the Global War on Terror from Mark Danner on Vimeo.
Beyond Endless War: Terror, Iraq, and the American Search for Solvency
Beyond Endless War: Terror, Iraq, and the American Search
What Happened at El Mozote?
What Happened at El Mozote? from Mark Danner on Vimeo. A conversation with Claudia
Beyond Endless War: Iraq, Terror, and American Power (No Video)
Beyond Endless War: Iraq, Terror, and American Power from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Speech
Bush: entre la fe y la bravuconeria
Sin duda, uno de los atributos agonizantes de nuestra era posterior al 11-S es la necesidad permanente de reafirmar realidades que han sido demostradas una y otra vez, y negadas con la misma obstinación por quienes ocupan el poder oficiel
‘The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam’
Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post-September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the one gaining life and color and vigor as more facts become known, the other growing ever paler, brittler, more desiccated, barely sustained by the life support of official power.
Words in a Time of War: On Rhetoric, Truth and Power
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.”
War, fear, and truth
Perhaps it would have surprised George Orwell, poet laureate of the Cold War, to find himself so much in our thoughts in this second decade of the post-Cold War age.
Beyond Endless War: Terror, Iraq, and the Growth of American Foreign Policy (No Video)
Beyond Endless War: Terror, Iraq, and the Growth of American
Confirming Mukasey (No Video)
Confirming Mukasey from Mark Danner on Vimeo. A discussion of the Senate confirmation hearings
Anticipating the Petraeus Report
Anticipating the Petraeus Report from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner interviewed by Michael
Truth, Power, and the Iraq Debacle
Mark Danner interviewed by Harry Kreisler, of U.C. Berkeley’s International
Making American Foreign Policy: Promoting Democracy
Lecture by Mark Danner at the American Center, Rangoon, Myanmar
Mark Danner discusses “Words in a Time of War” with Chuck Mertz
Mark Danner discusses his TomDispatch article, “Words in a
Words in a Time of War (abridged)
Being invited to deliver a commencement address to the Department of Rhetoric is akin to being asked out for a romantic evening by a porn star.
The World According to TomDispatch: America and the Age of Empire
Buy this book at: Amazon.com [Originally published by tomdispatch.com]
Words in a Time of War: Department of Rhetoric Commencement
Commencement address given to graduates of the Department of Rhetoric
Reporting on Iraq, Living in Terror (No Video)
Reporting on Iraq, Living in Terror from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Carolin Emcke and
Dirty Wars: Readings Against Torture, Arbitrary Detention, Kidnapping, and Rendition (No Video)
Dirty Wars: Readings Against Torture, Arbitrary Detention, Kidnapping, and Rendition from Mark
The Making of Quagmire: Iraq and the War on Terror (No Video)
The Making of Quagmire: Iraq and the War on Terror from Mark
Remembering David Halberstam (No Video)
Remembering David Halberstam from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner, Orville Schell, and Sandy
Remembering Susan Sontag (No Video)
Remembering Susan Sontag from Mark Danner on Vimeo. An evening with Wendy Lesser, Robert
Into the Light of Day: Torture, Human Rights, and the War on Terror
Lecture by Mark Danner, the Critical Issues in
Iraq: The War of the Imagination
In the ruined city of Fallujah, its pale tan buildings pulverized by Marine artillery in the two great assaults of this long war (the aborted attack of March 2004 and then the bloody, triumphant al-Fajr (The Dawn) campaign of the following November), behind the lines of giant sandbags and concrete T-walls and barbed wire that surrounded the tiny beleaguered American outpost there, I sat in my body armor and Kevlar helmet and thought of George F. Kennan.
Iraq’s Third Act (No Video)
Iraq’s Third Act from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner and John Mearsheimer interviewed
Bush in Winter: Democracy, the Elections, and Bush’s Iraq War
Bush in Winter: Democracy, the Elections, and Bush’s Iraq
The War of the Imagination (No Video)
Iraq: The War of the Imagination from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner interviewed
The War Of The Imagination
November 27, 2006 The War Of The Imagination By Ezra
Into the Light of Day: Torture, Human Rights, and the New State of Exception
Into the Light of Day: Torture, Human Rights, and
The Politics of the Forever War: Terror, Rights, and George Bush’s State of Exception
The Politics of the Forever War: Terror, Rights, and
America at War: Iraq, Al Qaeda and the Politics of Terror (No Video)
America at War: Iraq, Al Qaeda and the Politics of
Apocalypse Now
Author: J.S. Marcus Die Fahrt im Einbaum oder Das Stí¼ck
Consequences of the War on Terrorism
A discussion with George Soros, Mark Danner, Dana Priest, Lowell
Bodies Under Stress
In November 2003, barely six months into the Iraq War, Specialist Joseph Darby returned from leave and asked a fellow soldier at Abu Ghraib prison to tell him what had happened while he”d been away.
The Media and the Iraq War
The Media and the Iraq War from Mark Danner on Vimeo. A discussion
Humanism and Terror (What Are You Going to Do With That?)
A Commencement Address at the University of California-Berkeley Department of
Freespeech.org site on Mark Danner.
Freespeech.org site on Mark Danner Related Content: Mark Danner’s Berkeley
Mark Danner’s Berkeley Website
Mark Danner’s Berkeley Website Related Content: Townsend Center Berkeley Book
Torture Documents obtained by the ACLU
Torture Documents obtained by the ACLU Related Content: New Details
MacArthur Foundation
MacArthur Foundation Related Content: MacArthur Lecture at Bard College MacArthur
War Report
War Report Related Content: Report Calls CIA Detainee Treatment Inhuman
Project on Defense Alternatives
Project on Defense Alternatives Related Content: New York Review of
New York Review of Books
New York Review of Books Related Content: 50 Years: The
El Salvador: Photographs by Larry Towell
Buy this book at: Amazon.com Blurb: A deeply
Abu Ghraib: The Politics of Torture
Buy this book at: Amazon.com Barnes & Noble
Writing About a War Without End (No Video)
Writing About a War Without End from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner interviewed
Smoking with Carol
When I look back over the many years of conversations with Carol Feldman, I realize that what brought us together, first and foremost, was our vices.
The Reality and Legacy of the Iraq War (And Will Iran Be Next?)
The Reality and Legacy of the Iraq War (And
The Secret Way to War (No Video)
The Secret Way to War from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner interviewed by
The Iraq War: Where Do We Go From Here?
The Iraq War: Where Do We Go From Here? from Mark
The Age of Frozen Scandal: Power and the Press After 9/11
The Age of Frozen Scandal: Power and the Press
Human Rights in a Dark Time: From Salvador to Iraq and the War on Terror
Human Rights in a Dark Time: From Salvador to Iraq
The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War’s Buried History
The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo
Czeslaw Milosz: A Tribute
Czeslaw Milosz: A Tribute from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Hello. I’m Mark Danner.
The Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz (No Video)
The Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner and Lillian
You Can Do Anything with a Bayonet Except Sit on It
The phrase I come back to, not only about interrogation but the many other steps that constitute the Bush state of exception, state of emergency, since 9/11 is “take the gloves off.”
You Can Do Anything with a Bayonet Except Sit on It
Iraq, Torture, and Bush’s State of Exception: Mark Danner interviewed
Into the Light of Day: Torture, Rights, and Bush’s State of Exception
Mark Danner delivers the 2006 Dewitt Higgs Memorial Lecture,
Glimpsing Fritz Stern
Scanning my memory for especially telling episodes in my friendship with Fritz has brought much pleasure, for my memories are full of laughter and also, of course – this is after all Fritz Stern – much wisdom.
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;
The Future of Iraq (No Video)
The Future of Iraq from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner and George Packer
Humanitarian Intervention and the Clinton Years (No Video)
Humanitarian Intervention and the Clinton Years from Mark Danner on Vimeo. A discussion with
Covering the Iraq War: The ‘Media Strategy’ of the Insurgents (No Video)
Covering the Iraq War: The ‘Media Strategy’ of the Insurgents from Mark
“Lost in the Forever War”: A Foreign Policy Roundtable
Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs Seminar, moderated by
The Torture Question: A “Frontline” Special Report
Documentary by Michael Kirk, featuring Mark Danner, John Yoo, Michael Scheuer, Janis Karpinksi, Michael Ratner, et al.
Taking Stock of the Forever War
Multiple Authors Mark Danner’s article was brilliant, devastating (Sept. 11).
The New Yorker Town Hall Meeting on Iraq
A discussion with Douglas J. Feith, Mark Danner, Rend al-Rahim,
The War on Terror Four Years On
The War on Terror Four Years On from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner
Taking Stock of the Forever War
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
https://vimeo.com/1008356 Taking Stock of the Forever War from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark
Iraq’s Buried History: The Memo, The Press and The War
For more than two years the United States has been fighting a war in Iraq that was launched in the cause of destroying weapons that turned out not to exist.
The Iraq Pretext: Why the Memo Matters
The great value of the discussion recounted in the Downing Street memo…is to show, for the governments of both countries, a clear hierarchy of decision-making.
The London Bombings and the Future of Global Terror (No Video)
The London Bombings and the Future of Global Terror from Mark Danner on Vimeo.
The I Hate the Twenty-First Century Reader
Buy this book at: Amazon.com The following is
Humanism and Terror (What Are You Going to Do With That?)
When I was invited to give this speech, I was asked for a title. I dillied and dallied, begged for more time, and of course the deadline passed.
The Secret Way to War
It was October 16, 2002, and the United States Congress had just voted to authorize the President to go to war against Iraq.
The Question of Torture (No Video)
The Question of Torture from Mark Danner on Vimeo Panel discussion, “Live at the
Being Opinionated in America: Maureen Dowd and Thomas Friedman in conversation with Cynthia Gorney and Mark Danner
Zellerbach Hall, the University of California, Berkeley. Related Content: The
Humanism and Terror (What Are You Going to Do with That?)
Commencement address by Mark Danner at the University of California-Berkeley
The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War’s Buried History
Mark Danner interviewed by Al Franken, The Al Franken Show,
The Right to Torture, the Right Not to Be: Danner vs. Yoo
Mark Danner debates John Yoo and Tom Farer, moderated by Harry Kreisler. Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley.
The Iraq Elections and the Future (No Video)
The Iraq Elections and the Future from Mark Danner on Vimeo. A Conversation with
Whither Iraq and the Persian Gulf Sub Region? (No Video)
Whither Iraq and the Persian Gulf Sub Region? from Mark Danner on Vimeo. A
Iraq: The Real Election
Just past dawn on January 30, Iraq’s Election Day — the fourth of the US occupation’s “turning points,” after the fall of Baghdad, the capture of Saddam Hussein, and the “handover of sovereignty” — I stood at the muddy gates of Muthana Air Base outside Baghdad watching the sun rise, pink and full, into a white-streaked sky; then, feeling a sudden tremor beneath my feet, I started abruptly: the explosion was loud and, judging by the vibrations, not far off.
Are We All Torturers Now? Human Rights After 9/11
Are We All Torturers Now? Human Rights After 9/11 from Mark Danner on Vimeo.
Writers and Iraq (No Video)
Writers and Iraq from Mark Danner on Vimeo. A discussion with Mark Danner, Kanan
Keynote speech, the Oscar Romero Award for Human Rights
Keynote speech, the Oscar Romero Award for Human Rights from Mark
Torture and Accountability: American Ideals and American Honor (No Video)
Torture and Accountability: American Ideals and American Honor from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark
Bush’s Victory: Second Thoughts
“Issues don’t win elections, constituencies do.” As this political chestnut suggests, issues serve politicians mainly as a way for them to consolidate constituencies—and “make a majority,” as Andrew Hacker puts it.
Abu Ghraib and the Iraq War, 3 years on
Mark Danner interviewed by Michael Krasny, KQED Forum, San Francisco,
The “Holiday Snaps”
Author: Ziauddin Sardar TORTURE AND TRUTH America, Abu Ghraib, and
The Brutal Truth
Author: Stephen Sedley The outrages of Abu Ghraib are no accident,
Call it what you like – this is hell
Mark Danner exposes the double speak that underpins Bush’s ‘war
Nobody is Talking
The evidence of two new books demonstrates that 9/11 created
Nobody is Talking
Author: James Meek The evidence of two new books demonstrates that
Are We There Yet?
TORTURE AND TRUTH America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on
Tortured Logic
HOW PATRIOTIC IS THE PATRIOT ACT? Freedom Versus Security in
Tortured Logic
Author: Neal Katyal HOW PATRIOTIC IS THE PATRIOT ACT? Freedom Versus
Are We There Yet?
Author: David Simpson TORTURE AND TRUTH America, Abu Ghraib, and
Atrocities in Plain Sight (Sunday Book Review)
Multiple Authors Terror and Torture (4 Letters) To the Editor:
“Shooting through a straw”: Journalist Mark Danner lifts the curtain on the Iraq election
Author: Bonnie Azab Powel BERKELEY — On Sunday, January 30, the
Media Roundtable: Condoleezza Rice Abroad and the Iraqi Election Fallout (No Video)
Media Roundtable: Condoleezza Rice Abroad and the Iraqi Election Fallout from Mark
Torture and Gonzales: An Exchange
Between the publication of my article, “Abu Ghraib: The Hidden Story,” and the receipt of these letters, and mainly thanks to the President’s nomination of Alberto Gonzales to be attorney general and the hearings that followed, we have had a public discussion of the “outrageous memos authored by highly placed administration lawyers” to which Mr. Rivkin refers.
US Practicing Torture? (No Video)
US Practicing Torture? from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner interviewed by Warren Olney,
Report From Baghdad: What Really Happened in the Iraqi Elections – and what does it mean?
Mark Danner lecture at the Goldman Salon, University of California-Berkeley
Torture—Learning to Live with it? Power, the Press, and the Lost Art of Outrage
Torture—Learning to Live with it? Power, the Press, and
Atrocities in Plain Site (Sunday Book Review)
Author: Andrew Sullivan TORTURE AND TRUTH America, Abu Ghraib, and the
Into the Inferno, With Notebook
Writer Mark Danner is at his best when the world is doing its worst.
On Television, Torture Takes a Holiday (Frank Rich)
On the day that the defense rested in the military
Atrocities in Plain Sight (Sunday Book Review)
TORTURE AND TRUTH America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on
On Television, Torture Takes a Holiday (Frank Rich)
Author: Frank Rich On the day that the defense rested in
In the Penal Colony
Author: Lisa Hajjar CHAIN OF COMMAND The Road from 9/11 to
Inaugural Auguries (No Video)
Inaugural Auguries from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner interviewed by Robert Knight, WBAI
The Iraq Elections and the Future of the Occupation (No Video)
The Iraq Elections and the Future of the Occupation from Mark Danner on Vimeo.
Torture, the Bush Administration, and the Alberto Gonzales’ Confirmation Hearings
Torture, the Bush Administration, and the Alberto Gonzales’ Confirmation Hearings from Mark
How Bush Really Won
Driving north from Tampa on Florida’s Route 75 on November 1, as the battle over who would hold political power in America was reaching a climax but the struggle over what that battle meant had yet to begin, I put down the top of my rented green convertible, turned the talk radio voices up to blaring, and commenced reading the roadside.
Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror
Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War
On the Confirmation Hearings of Alberto Gonzalez (No Video)
On the Confirmation Hearings of Alberto Gonzalez from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner
We Are All Torturers Now
Multiple Authors Gonzales and the Torture Question (9 Letters) To
Gonzales Grilled on Role in Torture at Confirmation Hearings
Mark Danner on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez Pacifica Radio Network
We Are All Torturers Now
At least since Watergate, Americans have come to take for granted a certain story line of scandal, in which revelation is followed by investigation, adjudication and expiation.
Alberto Gonzales’ Role in Torture Memos Like “Mafia Lawyer Whose Job it is to Help the Don Stay Out of Jail”
Mark Danner on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez Pacifica Radio Network
Torture, Gonzales, and the Bush Administration
Torture, Gonzales, and the Bush Administration from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner
Seeing the World: James Chace 1931-2004
“Go to Haiti!” James Chace leaned in close, left hand grasping my upper arm, fixed me with that incomparable stare, raised his right index finger and, like some unlikely fire-and-brimstone New England preacher reincarnated in blazer and khakis, intoned portentously: “Hear me well, young Danner: Go to Haiti!”
Abu Ghraib, the War on Terror, and the Second Term of George W. Bush (No Video)
Abu Ghraib, the War on Terror, and the Second Term
Torture and Truth
Mark Danner interviewed by Dave Gilson, MotherJones.com
The ethical questions involving torture of prisoners are lost in the debate over the war in Iraq. (National Desk)
The coming week’s celebration of Hanukkah revolves around the delightful
The ethical questions involving torture of prisoners are lost in the debate over the war in Iraq
Author: Peter Steinfels The coming week’s celebration of Hanukkah revolves around
The Road to Illegitimacy: A Discussion of the 2000 and 2004 Elections. The Charlie Rose Show
A Discussion of the 2000 and 2004 Elections from Mark Danner on Vimeo. A
Cruel But No Longer Unusual
TORTURE AND TRUTH America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on
A Doctrine Left Behind
It seemed somehow fitting, and fittingly sad, that Colin Powell saw his resignation accepted as secretary of state on the day marines completed their conquest of Falluja
Cruel But No Longer Unusual
Author: Sanford Levinson TORTURE AND TRUTH America, Abu Ghraib, and
James Clarke Chace—In Memoriam
One of the last times I saw James Chace I was standing right here, at this very podium, and he was sitting right…there.
James Clarke Chace – In Memoriam
Remarks delivered at the Century Association, New York Related Content:
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.
On Richard Wollheim, 1923-2003
Sad as I am not to be with you this day I take a bit of solace in thinking that Richard would have granted me a dispensation, once he learned that I had spent the last week among voters in the cities and towns of the great state of Florida – studying, as it were, abnormal mass psychology.
Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror (Open Society Institute)
Lecture by Mark Danner at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Publisher’s Weekly
TORTURE AND TRUTH America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on
Has the Press Failed in Iraq? War, Torture, and Accountability
Mark Danner in conversation with Robert Silvers and Michael Massing,
Torture and Truth
Author: Anon. TORTURE AND TRUTH America, Abu Ghraib, and the War
Abu Ghraib: The Hidden Story
They have long since taken their place in the gallery of branded images, as readily recognizable in much of the world as Marilyn struggling with her billowing dress or Michael dunking his basketball…
Does America Need a New President?
Mark Danner debates William Kristol, Herb Caen Lecture Series, Wheeler
The Future of Neo-Conservatism: Iraq, and America in the World
A conversation with Mark Danner, Katha Pollitt, David Frum and
A Shadow over 2004? The 2000 Election and its Aftermath
A Shadow over 2004? The 2000 Election and its
The Road to Illegitimacy: Vote, Fraud, and the Coming Election
Mark Danner interviewed by Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Radio
Florida 2000 and the Democratic Future (No Video)
Florida 2000 and the Democratic Future from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner interviewed
Bush in the Middle East
Bush in the Middle East from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner in
Whitewashing Torture: On Politics and Abu Ghraib
Mark Danner interviewed by Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seeder on
The US Intelligence Failure in Iraq: Debating the Senate Committee’s Report
Mark Danner in conversation with John Fund, The Wall Street
The Logic of Torture
what is difficult is separating what we now know from what we have long known but have mostly refused to admit.
The Logic of American Torture: A Discussion of Abu Ghraib and After
Mark Danner interviewed by Michael Krasny on KQED Forum, San
Torture and Truth
Last November in Iraq, I traveled to Fallujah during the early days of what would become known as the “Ramadan Offensive”—when suicide bombers in the space of less than an hour destroyed the Red Cross headquarters and four police stations, and daily attacks by insurgents against US troops doubled, and the American adventure in Iraq entered a bleak tunnel from which it has yet to emerge.
Haiti and Regime Change: The Fall of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Mark Danner interviewed by Dave Rasmussen for Soap Box Derby
U.S. And Iraq One Year Later: Right to Get In? Wrong to Get Out?
Mark Danner debates Christopher Hitchens, Michael Ignatieff, and Robert Scheer,
Our Own Worst Enemy: Seeking a Better Way to Fight the War on Terror
Our Own Worst Enemy: Seeking a Better Way to
Condoleezza Rice and the 9/11 Commission: Who’s to Blame For the Intelligence Failure?
Mark Danner in conversation with Abraham Sofaer and Vic Amar,
The Delusions of Nation-Building: Iraq, Haiti, and American Power
Delusions of Nation-building: Iraq, Haiti, and American Power from Mark Danner on Vimeo.
Campaigns
As the war in Iraq enters its second year, Americans find themselves trapped in an epistemological black hole: the war’s end recedes into an indefinite future while its beginning grows daily more contentious and obscure.
At the Mercy of the Saudis: Bush’s Failed Energy Policy
Mark Danner in conversation with David Goldwyn, former assistant secretary
Iraq, Weapons, and the Responsibility of the Press
Iraq, Weapons, and the Responsibility of the Press from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark
Reporting on the Occupation
Media at War Conference: Reporting on the Occupation from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark
Media and Foreign Policy: Iraq, Haiti, and the American Way of War
Mark Danner speaks in The Great Decisions Series at the
Delusions in Baghdad: An Exchange
I am glad that Ambassador Horan finds my article “interesting and accurate, as far as it goes.” I must confess that I feel the same way about his letter—up to and including the implication that the writer does not, alas, go quite far enough.
The Iraq War, One Year On: Defending Democracy or Creating Quagmire (No Video)
The Iraq War, One Year On: Defending Democracy or Creating
McNamara’s in Charge
San Francisco Chronicle Related Content: A Berkeley Lecture on Power’s
A Berkeley Lecture on Power’s Limits by an Expert
New York Times Related Content: A Berkeley Lecture on Power’s
A Berkeley Lecture on Power’s Limits, by an Expert
Author: Dean E. Murphy BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 5 — If the
McNamara’s in Charge
Author: Leah Garchick McNamara’s in charge: The atmosphere was crackling at
McNamara Speaks Berkeley’s Language
Author: Charles Burress He didn’t win hearts and minds in
The Fog of War: Mark Danner in conversation with Robert S. McNamara and Errol Morris
The Fog of War: Mark Danner in Conversation with Robert
Iraq and Beyond: A Debate
Mark Danner debates Christopher Hitchens, Samantha Power and David Frum
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear, and the Selling of American Empire
Mark Danner interviewed by Jeremy Earp for The Media Education
Delusions in Baghdad
Autumn in Baghdad is cloudy and gray. Trapped in rush-hour traffic one October morning, without warning my car bucked up and back, like a horse whose reins had been brutally pulled.
Post-War Iraq: A View from the Ground(No Video)
Post-War Iraq: A View from the Ground from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner
The Great Debate, Reloaded
A Salon Magazine Report on a Debate between Mark Danner
Report From Baghdad: Mark Danner and David Gelber
Mark Danner interviewed by David Gelber of CBS Sixty Minutes at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Are We Safer? Justice, Security and the War in Iraq
Are We Safer? Justice, Security, and the War in
Politics As Theatre/Theatre as Politics: Recalls, Primaries, Terror and Other Political Animals
Mark Danner in conversation with David Edgar, Tony-award winning British
Has Bush Made Us Safer? Iraq, Terror and American Power
Has Bush Made Us Safer? Iraq, Terror and American
Travels in the Ramadan Offensive: A Report from Iraq
Mark Danner interviewed by Michael Krasny on KQED Forum, San
The Struggles of Democracy and Empire
A year after a tiny band of religious zealots managed with stunning audacity to mutilate the face of America, the world’s sole superpower trembles on the threshold of a new imperial season.
American Imperialism and Iraq: A Conversation Between Mark Danner and James Chace (No Video)
Mark Danner in conversation with author James Chace, published in Spring 2004 issue of the Bardian, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Iraq: How Not to Win a War
We see the world through the stories we tell, and until recently the story most Americans told themselves about the war in Iraq was a simple and dramatic narrative of imminent threat, daring triumph, and heroic liberation —a story neatly embodied in images of a dictator’s toppling statue and a president in full flight gear swaggering across a carrier deck.
The Battle for Algiers: Commentary on a Contemporary Classic
Mark Danner interviewed by Dean Olsher on WNYC Radio, The
The Erotic Pull of the Strange: An Introduction
The first time I was killed, or nearly so, came
The Press and the Neoconservatives: How the Iraq War Happened(No Video)
The Press and the Neoconservatives: How the Iraq War Happened from Mark
Weapons of Mass Destruction in an Age of Terror: Living in the Second Nuclear Age
Mark Danner in conversation with Frances Fitzgerald, Michael Nacht and
How We Fight Now: The American Way of War
Mark Danner in conversation with Jonathan Schell at the LA
The Spoils of War: Deciding the Future of Iraqi Oil (No Content)
Related Content: Report From Baghdad: What Really Happened in the
American Power and The War in Iraq: Mark Danner debates Christopher Hitchens, Samantha Power, and Robert Scheer
American Power and the War in Iraq: Mark Danner
American Power & The Crisis Over Iraq
Mark Danner debates Christopher Hitchens, Michael Ignatieff and Robert Scheer,
War, The Press & U.S. Power: Diplomacy & Conflict in the Post 9/11 World (No Video)
War, the Press, and US Power: Diplomacy and Conflict in
How Should We Use Our Power?: Iraq and the War on Terror
Are we Safer? Justice, Security and the War in Iraq from Mark
Empire State Building: Is America Becoming an Empire?
Empire State Building: Is America Becoming an Empire? Mark Danner
The War Behind Closed Doors: A Frontline Interview with Mark Danner
PBS Frontline Documentary A “Frontline” interview with Mark Danner Can
The New York Times Goes to War: Terror, Truth, and the American Way of Journalism
Mark Danner in conversation with Gerald Marzorati, editorial director of
The Great Debate: Christopher Hitchens vs. Mark Danner
Author: Gary Kamiya As President Bush all but declared war
Salon “The Great Debate”
A Salon magazine report on the debate between Mark Danner
Danner vs. Hitchens: On Debating the Iraq War
Mark Danner and Christopher Hitchens interviewed by Michael Krasny, KQED
Danner vs. Hitchens: “How Should We Use Our Power? Iraq and the War on Terror”
Mark Danner debates Christopher Hitchens, The Goldman Forum on the Press and Foreign Affairs, at Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley
America Alone? An Encounter Between Americans and the World
America Alone? from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner in conversation with Ken
The Press and the Coming of the Iraq War
Mark Danner in conversation with Mark Hertsgaard and Patrick Jarreau,
The Two Strategists: Bush, Bin Laden, and the Coming Iraq War (No Video)
The Two Strategists: Bush, Bin Laden, and the Coming Iraq
The American Empire: Can It Endure?
Mark Danner debates David Fromkin and James Chace, The New
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
How are messages from America disseminated and received around the world? News or Propaganda
Mark Danner in conversation with Norman Pattiz and Don Jensen
War: What is it Good For? (No Video)
War: What is it Good For? from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner in
The Struggles of Democracy and Empire
Multiple Authors When a Democracy Weighs War (4 Letters) To
The Making of a Journalist
Author: Judy Stone Related Content: A Journalist’s Worldview “Shooting through a
The Story Behind the Stories: Mayhem, Drugs, and Atrocities (No Video)
The Story Behind the Stories: Mayhem, Drugs, and Atrocities from Mark Danner on Vimeo.
Thinking Local, Writing Global (No Video)
ThinkingLocalWritingGloba.mov from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner in conversation with Alexander Cockburn, Hamilton
Afghanistan and the War on Terror
Mark Danner, Tom Lantos, Marshall Windmiller and Abraham Sofaer interviewed
The New American Empire: US Foreign Policy After 9/11
Mark Danner in conversation with Harry Kreisler of U.C. Berkeley’s
A Journalist’s Worldview
Author: Jonathan Curiel Mark Danner, 42, professor in the Graduate School
The Battlefield in the American Mind
In Afghanistan, the targets are running out. Such are the frustrations of the powerful; Joseph Conrad, writing of an African “heart of darkness” a century ago, well understood: “Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast.
No Man’s Land: Filming the Bosnia War
No Man’s Land: Filming the Bosnia War from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner
Reporting Wars: The Moral Dimension
Mark Danner in conversation with Ron Haviv, David Rieff, Tim
Election 2000: A View of the Deadlock
Election 2000: A View of the Deadlock from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner
The Road to Illegitimacy
After you have spent some days searching for the secret of political legitimacy in Miami and West Palm Beach, you want to go further.
Scandal and the Road to Deadlock
Gaze upward, through the gaseous clouds of rhetoric littering the sky from the campaign that would not end—”I will never let you down,” “I will restore honor and dignity to the White House”—and you can spy, casting a shadow on the land like Barthelme’s Dead Father, an enormous pair of lips, belonging not to the Vice President or the Texas governor but to a young woman from Beverly Hills who one fateful day delivered a slice of pizza to the President of the United States.
Time for Democracy?: Haiti and the Road Ahead
Time for Democracy?: Haiti and the Road Ahead from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark
The Lost Olympics
Few of our predilections seem more distinctly modern than the compulsion to name “our era” and thereby claim it.
Clinton & Colombia: The Privilege of Folly
In foreign affairs, folly is the privilege of great powers, for they alone can be certain to survive it. Last month Americans embarked on a policy of exquisite folly: funding both sides of Colombia’s civil war.
The Shame of Political TV
Like ill-matched partners in a bad marriage, American politics and American television seem bound inextricably together, unable to escape a relationship that increasingly degrades both partners.
Long Memories: Srebrenica, A Cry From the Grave
Striding triumphantly down the streets of conquered Srebrenica, General Ratko Mladic announced to a television interviewer that “on this great Serb holy day,” commemorating “the uprising against the Turks, the time
Writing About A Dangerous World: America After The Cold War
Writing About A Dangerous World: America After the Cold War from Mark
War, Combat, and Heroism: The Medal of Honor
War, Combat and Heroism: The Medal of Honor from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark
Kosovo: The Meaning of Victory
Carried forward amid an ocean of cheering refugees in the Stankovic refugee camp, Madeleine Albright could hardly contain her excitement. “We have been victorious,” the secretary of state shouted triumphantly to the roaring crowds, “and Milosevic has lost!”
Endgame in Kosovo
Across this near-exhausted century, imagery recurs. The knock at the door, the forced march, the mass evacuation – expressions now impossible to hear without their attendant echoes.
War and Genocide in Kosovo: A Look at the Present Conflict
Mark Danner speaks at the World Affairs Council of Northern
Ideas and Leadership in US Foreign Policy: Conversations with History
Ideas and Leadership in US Foreign Policy from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner
Editing the New York Review of Books: A Conversation with Robert B. Silvers
Mark Danner in conversation with Robert Silvers, North Gate Hall
Members of the Club
Six decades ago, in a classroom at Groton, a young man rose slowly to his feet, gazed down at a sheaf of papers in his hand, and began to read.
Conversations with History: Being a Writer
Conversations with History: Being a Writer from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner interviewed
Operation Storm
Standing motionless among their hulking war machines like statues in the dark, 200,000 Croat soldiers dropped their cigarettes, then clambered into tanks and trucks and armored personnel carriers and, in a sudden earsplitting eruption of grating gears, pushed forward into Serb-held Krajina.
Bosnien: Warum Der Westen Zuschaute
Im Juli 1995, während die Menschen in Europa und Amerika Fe- rien machten, wurden in einer kleinen Stadt in Ostbosnien Hunderte von Muslimen mit verbundenen Augen auf Lastwagen und in Busse geladen.
In the Killing Fields of Bosnia
Only now, more than three years after he recorded the interview with CNN’s World Report, can one see subtle signs of Richard Holbrooke’s discomfort and unease
Slouching Towards Dayton
Near the lovely North Portico of the White House, on a mild and breezy evening in mid-June 1995, the President and First Lady danced alone.
The Horrors of a Camp Called Omarska
To the hundreds of millions who first beheld them on their television screens that August day in 1992, the faces staring out from behind barbed wire seemed powerfully familiar.
Welcome to Sarajevo: On Film and Foreign Reporting
Mark Danner with Catherine Lee, interviewed on WBNI Public Radio,
Bosnia: The Great Betrayal
Plunging forward into pitch-black night, their faces lashed by
Bosnia: Breaking the Machine
On May 22, 1995, fifteen months after Bosnian Serbs—bowing to an ultimatum from Western leaders infuriated by the televised carnage of sixty-eight dismembered bodies at Sarajevo’s Markela marketplace—had withdrawn their tanks and cannons and mortars from the mountains and ridges above the city, heavily armed Serb soldiers in camouflage uniforms forced their way into a United Nations “weapons collection point”…
Bosnia: The Turning Point
Early one February afternoon in 1994, people in Sarajevo shed their heavy coats and hats and poured out into streets and markets, allowing themselves to forget, in the bright warming sun, that from artillery bunkers and snipers’ nests dug into hills and mountains above the city hunters stared down, tracking their prey.
Marooned in the Cold War: An Exchange between Mark Danner and George F. Kennan, Strobe Talbott and Lee H. Hamilton
Our differences regarding enlargement do indeed remain deep, even after you were generous enough to teach me a number of things in your well-crafted letter — in particular, what you call the
Marooned In the Cold War: An Exchange between Mark Danner and Richard C. Holbrooke
I thought Mark Danner’s essay, “Marooned in the Cold War,” made a strong case against NATO
Marooned In the Cold War
Three years have passed since I stood in a tiny market in Sarajevo, notebook in hand, gazing through a chaos of smoke and running feet at the scores of dead heaped about the blood-slick earth.
Clinton, The UN, and the Bosnia Disaster
In the bitter wind and cold of late December 1995, shortly before the coming of Orthodox Christmas, the Serb fathers of Sarajevo began trudging toward the graveyards.
America and the Bosnia Genocide
To the hundreds of millions who first beheld them on their television screens that August day in 1992, the faces staring out from behind barbed wire seemed powerfully familiar.
Still Living in a Cold War World
Three years have passed since I stood in a marketplace in Sarajevo, notebook in hand, gazing through the chaos of smoke and running feet at the scores of dead heaped upon the earth.
The US and the Yugoslav Catastrophe
Scarcely two years ago, during the sweltering days of July 1995, any citizen of our civilized land could have pressed a button on a remote control and idly gazed, for an instant or an hour, into the jaws of a contemporary Hell.
Ronald Reagan and Iran-Contra: The Consequences of Breaking Campaign Promises
From a panel discussion at the Hofstra University Conference on
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?
Staying on in El Salvador (Introduction)
Inward-gazing and self-absorbed, Americans tend to learn about the world only during times of crisis.
How the Foreign Policy Machine Broke Down
For a half-dozen years, Iran-contra has haunted American political life. The ghost arose anew on Christmas Eve, thanks to President Bush’s pardons, and it is fated to reappear one day soon when Lawrence Walsh, the independent counsel, releases his final report.
Guardian Angels
A spectator of the culture wars writes: For a while there, Bob Dole had me worried.
Hypocrisy in Action: What’s the real Iran-Bosnia Scandal
Hypocrisy may be the mother’s milk of politics, but there are occasions — the controversy now being manufactured in Congress over “secret” Iranian arms shipments to Bosnia is one — when the glass runs over.
Running Free: Mark Danner on an Athlete’s Trials
That excellence equals beauty was taken for granted by the Greeks, fathers of the Olympiad, and Hassiba Boulmerka embodies the equation’s power.
El Mozote: The Roots of Atrocity (No Video)
El Mozote: The Roots of Atrocity from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner interviewed
Perilous Fight: Haiti’s Problems will not yield as easily as its Army
You can do anything with a bayonet, Napoleon is said to have observed, except sit on it.
House on Fire: America’s Haitian Crisis
How can it be that America is on the verge of invading a country already burdened by catastrophe? What does it take to get killed here?
Something Horrible in El Salvador (Joan Didion)
THE MASSACRE AT EL MOZOTE A Parable of the Cold
Something Horrible in El Salvador (Joan Didion)
THE MASSACRE AT EL MOZOTE A Parable of the Cold
America and the World: Elections in El Salvador
Mark Danner in conversation with Alvaro De Soto, U.N. Secretary
Massacre at El Mozote
Mark Danner interviewed on At Your Service Radio, WIBX, Utica,
Massacre at El Mozote
Mark Danner interviewed on Latin American News Radio, KGNU, Boulder,
Massacre at El Mozote
Mark Danner interviewed on Focus 580 Radio, Ottawa, Canada Related
Massacre at El Mozote (KEXP) (No Video)
Massacre at El Mozote from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner interviewed on Mind
Massacre at El Mozote
Mark Danner interviewed by Studs Terkel, WFMT, The Studs Terkel
Massacre at El Mozote
Mark Danner interviewed on Midday Radio Program WBEZ, Chicago Related
The Massacre At El Mozote and US Policy in Central America
Mark Danner interviewed by Erwin Knoll, editor of The Progressive,
Massacre at El Mozote
Mark Danner interviewed on WORT 89.9FM Radio, Madison, WI Related
Books of The Times; The Nature of One Particular War
THE MASSACRE AT EL MOZOTE A Parable of the Cold
Books of the Times: The Nature of One Particular War
Author: Christopher Lehmann-Haupt THE MASSACRE AT EL MOZOTE A Parable
Cutting Through the Fabric of Lies: On El Mozote
Mark Danner interviewed by John Nichols, The Capital Times, Madison,
The Massacre at El Mozote
Author: Anon. THE MASSACRE AT EL MOZOTE A Parable of
Turmoil in Haiti
Turmoil in Haiti from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner in conversation with Jocelyn
Massacre at El Mozote
Massacre at El Mozote from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner interviewed by Marc
Through A Child’s Eyes: The Yugoslav War
For besiegers of cities, a child is an especially lucrative target. If the aim is to sow terror among those holding out behind the walls, how better to do it than by murdering children?
While America Watched: The Bosnia Tragedy
While America Watched: The Bosnia Tragedy from Mark Danner on Vimeo. Mark Danner, writer
While America Watched: The Bosnia Tragedy
American fighter planes in the skies over Sarajevo. To the survivors in the ruined city below, the planes are a familiar sight.
Massacre at El Mozote
Mark Danner interviewed on Latin American News Radio, KGNU, Boulder,
Abroad at Home; The Whole Truth
THE MASSACRE AT EL MOZOTE A Parable of the Cold
The Truth of El Mozote
Heading up into the mountains of Morazán, in the bright, clear air near the Honduran border, you cross the Torola River, the wooden slats of the one-lane bridge clattering beneath your wheels, and enter what was the fiercest of El Salvador’s zonas rojas…
Abroad at Home; the Whole Truth
Author: Anthony Lewis THE MASSACRE AT EL MOZOTE A Parable of
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Syllabus
Writing Manhood Hemingway & His Progeny English 166, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11 to 1230 Mark Danner mark@markdanner.com It is difficult to point to a more foundational American writer than Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway embodied a kind of balls-to-the-wall masculine energy that dominated American modernist fiction for decades of war and conflict. For more than fifty years the ideal of manhood in American media and culture was as Hemingway described it: taciturn, bellicose, neurotic and given to the heroic killing of people and animals. In this class we will explore the major works of this essential American writer and seek to understand, with unflinching candor, what makes his work go on living, as dream or as nightmare, for readers and writers. For answers, we will look to the work of Hemingway’s epigones, from Dashiell Hammett to James Salter to Chester Himes, from Joan Didion to Raymond Carver to Lorrie Moore, from Denis Johnson to Cormac McCarthy. Warning Some books in this course contain words – including racial and ethnic slurs — that are offensive. We will be discussing this issue in class but please be prepared for this in your reading. Course Reader Ryan Lackey is our course reader. He will be having office hours on Thursdays and Fridays and can be reached at rlackey@berkeley.edu Class Requirements This class will be a mixture of lectures and discussion, backed up by a large amount of reading, and some writing. The most important requirements are that students *Attend all class sessions *Keep up with reading and writing assignments *Participate in discussions *Offer a class presentation, in collaboration with one or two colleagues *Complete one six-page midterm paper and one ten-page final paper A student’s record of attendance and participation in class discussion, together with the quality of his or her writing, will determine the success of our class and contribute the better part of the grade. Schedule Note that all classes will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 am via Zoom. Reading Our primary reading will draw on a series of novels and memoirs by Hemingway and other writers. They are listed below under Required Texts. I strongly urge you to obtain these books in your own copies and in the edition specified either from local bookstores or from online suppliers, so that you will be able to highlight and annotate them and so that during discussions we will all be “on the same page.” Favorite Passages Always come to class with a favorite passage of a paragraph or two drawn from that session’s assigned reading. Be prepared to read the passage out loud and say a few words about why you chose it. Writing and Final Exam There will be two papers required in this class, a short creative paper or story of 5-6 pages and a longer analytic paper of 8-10 pages. The short paper is due March 22, the final paper is due May 3. To bolster the clarity and vigor of your prose, I strongly suggest studying two works: George Orwell’s essay, “Politics and the English Language,” which can be readily found on the web, and Strunk and White’s little manual, The Elements of Style. Class Presentation Every student will be required to put on a class presentation in collaboration with one or two other students. The presentations should last ten to fifteen minutes and take up some subject ancillary to the class, having to do with Hemingway, his era, masculinity, writers he’d influenced or all of those. Use of images and video is strongly encouraged. Office Hours I will want to meet individually with each of you at least once during the semester. I will be holding office hours Friday mornings. We will begin to schedule these a few weeks into the semester. You are welcome to come talk to me about the class, the reading or anything else of interest. Note that our course reader, Ryan Lackey, will also be available to meet with students on Thursdays and Fridays. Grading Students will be graded on their preparedness and their participation in class, the strength of their presentations and the quality of their written work, roughly as follows. Attendance 25 percent Participation 25 percent Writing 25 percent Presentation 25 percent Required Texts Raymond Carver, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Vintage, 2010 [1976]) Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays (Farrar Straus, 2005 [1970]) Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (Vintage, 1992 [1930]) Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time (Scribner, 1995 [1925]) Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Scribner, 2016 [1926]) Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (Scribner, 2014 [1929]) Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner, 2019 [1940]) Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories (Scribner, 1998) Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and The Sea (Scribner, 1995 [1962]) Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition (Scribner, 2010 [1964]) Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden (Scribner, 1995 [1986]) Chester Himes, If He Hollers, Let Him Go (Thunders Mouth, 2002 [1947]) Denis Johnson, Train Dreams: A Novella (Picador, 2012) Cormac McCarthy, The Road (Vintage, 2006) Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories (Vintage, 2010) James Salter, The Hunters: A Novel (Vintage, 1999 [1956]) Films A Farewell to Arms (1932) The Maltese Falcon (1941) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) To Have and Have Not (1944) The Killers (1946) Hemingway: A Film by Ken Burns (2021) Syllabus January 19 – Introduction to Course. Hemingway’s words. Where He Came From. Modernism. On the Evolution of Masculinity. Reading Novels. On the plan of the course. Writing assignments. January 21 – Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time (Scribner, 1995 [1925]) January 26 – Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time (Scribner, 1995 [1925]) January 28 – Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time (Scribner, 1995 [1925]) and these additional stories from The Complete Short Stories (Scribner, 1998): “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” “Up in Michigan” “The Undefeated” “In Another Country” “The Killers” “Now I Lay Me” “A Clean Well Lighted Place” “A Way You’ll Never Be” “A Natural History of the Dead” “Fathers and Sons” February 2 — Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition (Scribner, 2010 [1964]) February 4 — Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition (Scribner, 2010 [1964]) February 9 — Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Scribner, 2016 [1926]) February 11 — Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Scribner, 2016 [1926]) February 16 — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (Scribner, 2014 [1929]) February 18 — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (Scribner, 2014 [1929]) February 23 – Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (Vintage, 1992 [1930]) Recommended: Diane Johnson, Dashiell Hammett: Man of Mystery (2014) https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781611457841 February 25 — Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (Vintage, 1992 [1930]) Recommended: Raymond Chandler, “The Simple Art of Murder” (1950) http://www.en.utexas.edu/Classes/Bremen/e316k/316kprivate/scans/chandlerart.html Recommended: Claudia Roth Pierpont, “Tough Guy: The Mystery of Dashiell Hammett,” The New Yorker, Feb. 4, 2002. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/02/11/tough-guy March 2 — Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner, 2019 [1940]) March 4 — Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner, 2019 [1940]) March 9 – James Salter, The Hunters: A Novel (Vintage, 1999 [1956]) March 11– James Salter, The Hunters: A Novel (Vintage, 1999 [1956]) March 16 — Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and The Sea (Scribner, 1995 [1962]) March 18 — Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and The Sea (Scribner, 1995 [1962]) March 22 – Midterm Paper Due (6-8 pages, double-spaced, with title, pagination and name) March 23 – Spring Vacation (No Class) March 25 – Spring Vacation (No Class) March 30 — Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden (Scribner, 1995 [1986]) April 1 — Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden (Scribner, 1995 [1986]) April 6 – Chester Himes, If He Hollers, Let Him Go (Thunders Mouth, 2002 [1947]) April 8 — Chester Himes, If He Hollers, Let Him Go (Thunders Mouth, 2002 [1947]) April 13 — Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays (Farrar Straus, 2005 [1970]) Recommended: Joan Didion, “Last Words” (1998) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/11/09/last-words-6 April 15 — Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays (Farrar Straus, 2005 [1970]) April 20 — Raymond Carver, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Vintage, 2010 [1976]) April 22 — Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories (Vintage, 2010) April 27 — Cormac McCarthy, The Road (Vintage, 2006) April 29 — Denis Johnson, Train Dreams: A Novella (Picador, 2012) May 3 – Final Paper Due (8-10 pages, double-spaced, with title, pagination and name) Annotated Syllabus Notes by Riley Schorr January 19, 2021 In Our Time- “A Very Short Story”
- “The searchlights came out”
- Indicative of the wartime setting.
- Describing Luz as “cool and fresh”
- Indicates a passage of time; He’s saying they made love.
- It is also mentioned that Luz stayed on night duty in order to have sex with the the main character and everyone around them knew about the affair.
- Hemingway’s father called this piece “filth”
- The mention of gonorrhea at the end of the text; big clash of societal practices/manners.
- This is mentioned at the end of the text where a character’s epiphany is usually located.
- Love as conditional
- Her love comes with conditions and confinements (wants him to get a job, etc.) while he gives her his love freely.
- Shows a feeling of betrayal
- The story is semi-autobiographical as Hemingway himself had an affair with a nurse in Milan named Agnes.
- He always felt women would inevitably betray him.
- Title from the Book of Common Prayer
- “Oh Lord give us peace in our time”
- This allusion is a marking of wartime.
- The Lost Generation
- Term coined by Gertrude Stein
- Generation of the “fin de siecle”
- “End of the century”
- Hemingway is in this generation (born in 1899 and died in 1961)
- WWI: 1914-1918
- Caused unprecedented carnage and death (20 million dead along with 20 million casualties).
- Wiped out an entire generation of men in countries such as Germany and Italy.
- The desperation from this war gave way to Modernism
- Shift from hopefulness to hopelessness.
- Documentary Clip
- Hemingway ended up in the hospital after a blast injured him, leaving him with a severe concussion and leg injury from shrapnel.
- During his stay here he fell in love with a nurse named Agnes and they formed a romantic relationship.
- She eventually broke it off and the effect of this heartbreak is seen in Hemingway’s short story “A Very Short Story”
- After returning home, Hemingway suffered from PTSD (could not sleep in the dark and had a difficult time sleeping alone).
- He also went on to tell his war stories and embellished on them quite heavily.
- Aftermath of Agnes
- Hemingway never responded to her letter and in order to numb the pain of her rejection he began drinking heavily.
- Meets Hadley Richardson at a party and quickly decides to marry her.
- Paris
- Told to go to Paris by Sherwood Anderson
- Wrote him multiple letter of recommendation
- Hemingway arrives as a young newly married man, and rents a place with his wife for 18 dollars a month.
- Vignettes
- Relationship with the stories
- Kind of shows the direction/inspiration for the story that is about to be told.
- Sets a tone
- Suppression of emotions
- A masculine distancing from vulnerability
- Dishonest in a way
- “Soldier’s Home”
- A feeling of not being able to relate or talk to anyone about the war and his feelings; shows the alienation Hemingway felt upon returning home.
- Question of how do you even begin to speak about the experiences from WWI
- “Indian Camp”
- Uncle George:
- Hands out cigars, helps hold the woman down, and ends up being bitten by her.
- Theory: perhaps George is the father of the child? (kind of theorized by the way he hands out cigars amongst other little details; not proven, but a cool theory to think over)
- “Big Two-Hearted river”
- Goes into nature to heal himself
- Kingfisher symbol
- Multiple mentions of this in other works. (Hemingway would have understood its importance and meaning)
- Hopkins “As Kingfishers Catch Fire”
- Each mortal being has one thing in common: they all die. This is a discussion about mortality and immortality.
- Before the war and after
- Vastly different worlds, both in actuality and in Nick’s own experience.
- Says they never saw one of their friends (Hopkins) again, most likely meaning he died.
- Keeps mentioning how long ago the war was
- Almost an entirely different lifetime, and for Nick it truly was.
- Cans
- Opening up/vulnerability
- Maybe a reminder of wartime – preserved foods.
- “The fishing would be tragic”
- River that sort of leads into a swamp
- Healing from trauma is messy
- Hemingway implies he will eventually go down the stream, just not today.
- Cedar is often a symbol for death
- “Up in Michigan”
- Told from a woman’s perspective
- A sexual assault occurs and the story was once thought to be unpublishable.
- Pursuing her is compared to “the hunt” and “the chase”
- At first there is a lot of autonomy from here, especially when she mentions being the one to take him up to bed. However this quickly changes as things seem to shift into his point of view.
- Breakout room discussion
- The voices of women in many Hemingway stories can be seen as nagging and a burden for people to listen to.
- Hemingway seems to equate romance and lust to a sense of ownership
- “Short and Happy Life…”
- She’s too pretty and he has too much money
- This is a power struggle between them.
- She is portrayed as more masculine than he is, which makes her not want to be with him anymore (after he runs away from the lion).
- Her masculinity is shown to be a negative thing and a dangerous thing.
- Paris
- Ties a lot together; center of the writing world at this time
- Very cheap to live in, especially for Americans
- The place to be
- Hemingway exaggerated how poor they were
- The Lost Generation
- PTSD, WWI, Modernism, etc.
- Comes out through art
- The War
- Ended civilization as they knew it; fought with modern industry; Economic insecurity: Germany struggled, Russian revolution.
- Many adopted a “get it while you can” kind of mentality of living life to the fullest.
- Hemingway’s relation to work
- Determines someone’s value based on how well they get work done and how productive they are.
- Disdain for people who don’t get work done (shown in his comments on how Zelda tries to prevent F. Scott Fitzgerald from getting his work done)
- Why begin with Robert?
- The role he plays
- A sort of flip
- Exposed a bit of anti semitism that Hemingway was later very embarrassed by.
- Jake’s impotence
- Love that cannot be consummated
- Infertility
- Forces him to be more observant
- Shown when he picks up Georgette the prostitute
- A way for Hemingway to show readers this important detail without just telling them
- A feeling of emptiness from the text
- A lot of sadness masked with alcohol and socialization
- A feeling of what could’ve been
- The Latin Quarter
- During this time there were a lot of Americans in Paris.
- Drinking; era of prohibition in the states
- Many were better off financially
- The Title:
- The initial title was either “Fiesta,” and then “The Lost Generation.”
- Pg 22. “She was sitting up now…I’m paying for it all now’”
- She’s broken so many men’s hearts now she sees her situation with Jake as her karma.
- Is this love real?
- Idealized in part (can’t be consummated)
- Harder to believe her love for him
- Jake represents stability for Brett
- He is always available to rescue her and she always knows she can turn to him.
- Jake offers her passion as well
- He has a disbelief in the legitimacy of her love.
- Pg. 189 “After lunch I went up to my room…”
- A sort of ritual cleansing
- Return to nature (hero often does this alone or with another man).
- Hemingway and Hadley
- Cheats on her, she asks for a divorce
- He marries Pauline and converts to Catholicism
- Says he was never truly married to Hadley and calls Pauline his first wife.
- Prevalence of Suicide
- Hemingway says his father was a coward and an embarrassment for taking his own life and that his mother heavily contributed.
- Later on…
- Very famous
- Becomes a household name and his name becomes nearly synonymous with “amazing writer.”
- Established as an icon.
- Italian front/Hemingway’s story
- Henry is passing out food in the trenches just like Hemingway did himself.
- Hemingway ended up with a huge piece of shrapnel in his leg along with bullets.
- Dragged a man to safety, regarded as a hero though he insists he is not one
- Meets Agnes in Milan
- Falls in love with her
- Ends in heartbreak, as we know.
- Symbols
- Rain: impending doom and despair
- Ex; when Catherine goes into labor and it begins to rain.
- Nature/Seasons
- Feeling of slow and natural progression of time through the novel.
- Masculinity
- A man knows how to do things such as hunt, fish, etc.
- They then teach these skills to others
- Hemingway was taught by his father, and so on and so forth.
- Pg. 113 & 115: “After dinner we walked…very hard on piano keys” & “You couldn’t get to Scotland…There’s no way to be married except by church and state”
- Expansion of the plot in “A Very Short Story”
- Beautiful imagery of her hair in this scene
- Rain is once again a symbol of impending doom and death
- What is the character of the relationship?
- Perhaps it is an idealized sort of love, always affected by the war and all of the trauma that came along with it.
- Fantasy
- Escape; everything about it is completely rushed: they don’t know where they’re going and they can’t seem to be apart from one another.
- Why is the relationship doomed?
- Too much rule breaking; reflection of Hemingway’s own life experiences.
- His real life relationship didn’t work so why should this one? It would have felt disingenuous.
- While Henry didn’t have his heart broken by Catherine, the universe still didn’t allow them to end up together
- Tainted by the war; they can’t just walk away from it.
- Femme Fatale
- Brigid: uses her femininity to gain things
- Men who fall for her tend to meet a bad end
- Indicative of this archetype
- Spade
- Trying to navigate his way through an amoral world.
- When he first speaks to the police: refuses to mention Brigid.
- Amoral himself
- How does love fit in? What does it say about the idea of masculinity?
- Love is a weakness, a “personal failing”
- Some anti-romantic lines
- Love in a vulnerability; Brigid provides a fantasy version of love.
- Brigid’s power over people is through her sexuality
- This is why Cairo scares her so much, she has no hold over him
- Spade can’t stand Iva because she romanticizes their affair far too much
- Example: she thinks Spade killed her husband so they can be together.
- Love in the Story
- Brigid lying all the time: Spade sort of admires this about her because he himself is an amoral character. He lies just like she does.
- A sort of camaraderie in this.
- Published in 1940
- Events in the novel take place in 1937
- Based off of real life happenings, although the book is fiction (war in Spain against fascism).
- Hemingway went to Spain in order to report on the war; he was the highest paid reporter at the time.
- While there he met Martha Gellhorn who would later become his third wife.
- This war was also intensely brutal
- Leftists from everywhere around the world travelled to fight in this war and show support in stopping fascism.
- During his time, Hemingway covered up much of the abuses from the Soviets as he felt it would hurt the left’s cause.
- George Orwell was one of the few who didn’t
- Hemingway was not exactly a leftist writer either, he felt there was just good and bad writing.
- Message of the title
- Excerpt from John Donne’s writing
- Message: call to action. The bell tolls for you. Take action.
- Hemingway heroes
- Robert Jordan: brave and manly even in the face of defeat
- Think Casablanca
- Antifascist hero character
- Love in the novel
- Like new love, sensual and fiery but not entirely realistic
- “The girl stooped as she…which rose again as her hand passed” (24).
- Love at first sight, the thunderbolt
- Maria’s love allows him to live a full life during this very short time.
- This is a type of love that is not sustainable outside of their extreme/traumatic circumstances
- Their relationship:
- Is it love or lust? Why Robert?
- Maria was assaulted and Robert represents someone who is from the outside, someone who does not know her past
- Maria as a character:
- Very static and not very complex
- Hemingway sort of wrote a man’s fantasy of who this woman is (seen in how she sleeps with Robert and is magically healed from her trauma)
- Robert Jordan
- Anti-heroic and anti-romantic
- Throughout his experience with love, he’s able to redefine it
- Move beyond preconceived notions of love
- His female counterpart designed as “weak” to serve as a foil to him
- Makes him seem all that much stronger
- Is this due to Heminway’s lack of understanding his own trauma?
- This is why it can be difficult to analyze Maria with a modern lens
- Another notable point is Hemingway’s treatment of death
- Salter
- Born in 1925 in New York
- James Salter was a pen name that eventually became his legal name
- He and his father were both professional military men
- Both attended West Point
- The Hunters is largely autobiographical
- Roman e’clef
- “A novel with a key”
- Characters who have real life counterparts
- Salter hero versus Hemingway hero
- Joins them: sensitivity to nature, etc
- Differences: Salter describes things with more clear emotion
- Made him even more famous
- By this time, he was in his early 50s and many had pronounced him to be a “dead writer.”
- The character Santiago:
- Thought to be based off of a real life counterpart in Hemingway’s life (captain of his boat).
- Conflict
- Between Santiago and fate/failure
- Luck and the lack of it
- The number 40
- Exile; biblical reference (Jesus in the desert, Noah’s ark, etc.)
- Imagery/Symbols/Themes
- Nailing his hands; 40 days
- Gives the story a religious kind of figure.
- Manhood
- Being able to bear what the world places on you
- What do you do?
- Do you go drink brandy to escape or actively fight against the fish?
- Dignity of the fish
- Young and powerful, compared to the old man
- Sort of demands respect
- Similar to the hunting portrayed in other short stories
- Differs because here there is an identification between the two of them.
- Posthumous Work
- Only a third of the original manuscript that Hemingway left
- Sold millions of copies and won both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes
- Mary Welsh Hemingway
- His fourth wife
- Sounds like a turbulent relationship
- “I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures…”
- Religion of manhood
- Constantly having to prove himself
- Imagery of the Lions on the Beach
- Heavenly/ sign of coming death?
- Other interpretation(s)
- Lions gave him strength; why he didn’t surrender to death
- Characterization of his hands
- “How do you feel, hand?”
- External, almost as if it does not belong to him
- Hands are described to be like claws; goes along with other animalistic comparisons of himself.
- Main Elements
- Catherine: one of his most fleshed out female characters.
- In a power struggle with David, a male character who is very passive (demonstrates Hemingway’s feelings on passive men).
- Sexual Play
- Roleplay is discussed and explored; apparently a real life occurrence for Hemingway.
- Sexual roles are reversed here
- The Garden of Eden itself…where is it found?
- Scene where they are swimming alone together
- This idea of being on vacation in limbo
- Marita
- Catherine wants to explore by sleeping with Marita
- A way of fulfilling herself in the way David is able to
- Hunger to go against conventional norms and explore creativity
- Catherine
- “Metaphorically genders herself male”
- Her the destroyer, him the creative
- Group Discussion
- Gender switching; work is pushed in a new direction
- More emotional and introspective as opposed to action based/external.
- Authority
- Searching for autonomy/authority over her own life
- Hemingway and his own misogyny
- Contributed largely to his depiction of women in his work/poor perception of them.
- Chester Himes
- Published stories from prison
- Moved to LA eventually
- Held 23 jobs in about 3 years’ time
- Faced awful experiences with racism
- Due to these experiences, became “bitter and saturated with hate”
- Novel begins with a man having “racialized dreams” and waking up in fear
- Alice
- Romantic figure
- Considered to be white passing, and this plays a role in their relationship
- Los Angeles
- Lots of racism
- Japanese people were being forced into internment camps, many Black families were moving into these newly vacant spaces
- Zoot suit riots
- Chester Himes reported on this; thought all people of the Black community should know about these events.
- Question of Masculinity
- Whether he can truly be a man under the conditions or not.
- Does being a man require fighting against these systems
- His relationship with Alice
- In private moments they can sometimes forget about hardships, however the problems surrounding race cannot be escaped
- Very much a part of their relationship
- Seen when they first meet.
- Connection to Hemingway
- She was heavily influenced by his work
- Would copy out sentences from his work in order to learn about his particular sentence structure.
- Fun fact: earned a Bachelor’s in English from UC Berkeley in 1956
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