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When ‘Free Speech’ Becomes a Political Weapon
What we can learn from liberal anti-communists.
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Jennifer Delton
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Made by History
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August 22, 2017
Conservatives Say Campus Speech Is Under Threat. That’s Been True for Most of History.
There’s never been a golden age of free speech at American universities.
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Todd Gitlin
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Washington Post
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August 11, 2017
A New View of Grenada’s Revolution
The documentary, "The House on Coco Road" tells the little-known story of Grenada's revolution and subsequent U.S. invasion.
by
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
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New York Review of Books
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July 26, 2017
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How our Appetite for Cheap Food Drove Rural America to Trump
Consumer demand and government policy decimated rural America.
by
Benjamin Davison
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Made by History
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June 30, 2017
How Congress Failed to Plan for Doomsday
What would happen if some crazed gunman or terrorist massacred Congress? We don’t really know — and that’s bad news for our democracy.
by
Garrett M. Graff
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Politico Magazine
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June 15, 2017
The Empire’s Amnesia
When it comes to imperialism, Latin America never forgets, and the United States never remembers.
by
Greg Grandin
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Jacobin
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Jacobin
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May 19, 2017
Yes, We’ve Done It Too
A history of the United States meddling in the elections of other countries.
by
Jess Engebretson
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KQED
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March 2, 2017
Leftovers / Vapor Trails
Clouds and conspiracies.
by
D. Graham Burnett
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Cabinet
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February 28, 2017
A Wonderful Life
How postwar Christmas embraced spaceships, nukes, and cellophane.
by
Sarah Archer
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Lisa Hix
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Collectors Weekly
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December 15, 2016
Is a Mission to Mars Morally Defensible Given Today’s Real Needs?
Elon Musk and the rise of Silicon Valley’s strange trickle-down science.
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Andrew Russell
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Lee Vinsel
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Aeon
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December 1, 2016
See the Historic Maps Declassified by the CIA
A new gallery provides a rare look inside the 75-year history of the agency’s mapping unit.
by
Greg Miller
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National Geographic
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November 26, 2016
The Internet Should Be a Public Good
The Internet was built by public institutions — so why is it controlled by private corporations?
by
Ben Tarnoff
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Jacobin
on
August 31, 2016
End of the End of History, Redux
Remember Perot?
by
Frank Guan
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n+1
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March 24, 2016
Internet Privacy, Funded By Spies
Spies, counterinsurgency campaigns, hippie entrepreneurs, privacy apps funded by the CIA.
by
Yasha Levine
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Surveillance Valley
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March 3, 2016
Ellis Island's Forgotten Final Act as a Cold War Detention Center
The idealistic interpretation of Ellis Island should be revisited.
by
Brianna Nofil
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Atlas Obscura
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February 2, 2016
Open to Inspection
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the age of surveillance.
by
Lewis H. Lapham
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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January 1, 2016
Atomic Anxiety and the Tooth Fairy: Citizen Science in the Midcentury Midwest
How the St. Louis Baby Tooth Study reconciled the ritual of childhood tooth loss with the geopolitics of nuclear annihilation.
by
Caroline Jack
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Stephanie Steinhardt
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The Appendix
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November 26, 2014
Green House: A Brief History of “American Poetry”
Tracing its emergence of as a distinct cultural institution.
by
Frank Guan
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Prelude
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September 22, 2014
Our Mis-Leading Indicators
How statistical data came to rule public policy.
by
Stephen Macekura
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Public Books
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September 15, 2014
The Case for Female Astronauts: Reproducing Americans in the Final Frontier
Imagining a future that separates women from their biological identity seems so “drastic” as to be unimaginable—in 1962 and today.
by
Lisa Ruth Rand
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The Appendix
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July 15, 2014
The Twin Insurgency
The postmodern state is under siege from plutocrats and criminals who unknowingly compound each other’s insidiousness.
by
Nils Gilman
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The American Interest
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June 15, 2014
How Iowa Flattened Literature
With help from the CIA, Paul Engle’s writing students battled Communism and eggheaded abstraction. The damage to writing still lingers.
by
Eric Bennett
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
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February 10, 2014
Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True
How Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.
by
Eric Schlosser
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The New Yorker
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January 17, 2014
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Fierce Urgency of Now
Exploring the origins and impacts of the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," on that event's 50th anniversary.
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BackStory
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August 23, 2013
The True Story of History's Only Known Meteorite Victim
Ann Hodges was hit by a meteorite in her Alabama home in 1954.
by
Justin Nobel
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National Geographic
on
February 20, 2013
Watch Out For the Top Banana
Edward Bernays and the colonial adventures of the United Fruit Company.
by
Larry Tye
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Cabinet
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September 4, 2006
Great Migration Debates: Keywords in Historical Perspective
The use of the word "immigrant" in contemporary debates often reflects a lack of understanding of U.S. immigration history.
by
Donna Gabaccia
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Social Science Research Council
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July 28, 2006
Rethinking the War to End All Wars
For the players in the First World War, the goal was not to prevail but to avoid being seen as the loser.
by
Adam Gopnik
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The New Yorker
on
August 16, 2004
Mythologizing the Bomb
The beauty of the atomic scientists' calculations hid from them the truly Faustian contract they scratched their names to.
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E. L. Doctorow
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The Nation
on
August 14, 1995
Jimmy Carter Toasts the Shah
The Shah’s reign witnessed years of oppression against the Iranian people, and Carter’s toast added fuel to the fire.
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Voices & Visions
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December 31, 1977
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