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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
September 14, 2008
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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
November 10, 2007
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‘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.
November 8, 2007
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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.”
November 7, 2007
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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.
November 4, 2007
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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.”
February 26, 2006
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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.
September 11, 2005
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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.
June 23, 2005
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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.
June 9, 2005
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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.
March 10, 2005
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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.
February 10, 2005