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Noam Chomsky on How America Sanitizes the Horror of Its Wars

On the origins of America's hegemonic foreign policy.

by Noam Chomsky via Literary Hub on October 16, 2024
The Worst Crime of the 21st Century

The United States’ destruction of Iraq remains the worst international crime of our time. Its perpetrators remain free and its horrors are buried.

by Noam Chomsky, Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on May 12, 2023
“Every Time We Build Up Our Military Budget, We’re Attacking Ourselves”

Noam Chomsky discusses the hypocrisies of US empire and why if we really wanted to build a decent society, we’d immediately slash the massive military budget.

by David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky via Jacobin on June 17, 2022

The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World

Noam Chomsky, Nathan J. Robinson

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Noam Chomsky illustration by Joe Ciardiello.

The Worlds of Noam Chomsky

If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky.

by Daniel Bessner via The Nation on January 13, 2025

Noam Chomsky.

How George Orwell Paved Noam Chomsky’s Path to Anarchism

On the profound impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's early embrace of left-libertarian and anarchist ideologies.

by Robert F. Barsky via The MIT Press Reader on July 3, 2024

Operatives using air defense systems.

The Two Chomskys

The US military’s greatest enemy worked in an institution saturated with military funding. How did it shape his thought?

by Chris Knight via Aeon on December 8, 2023

The Vexed History of Zionism and the Left

A new book asks why the left fell out of love with Zionism, but what it reveals is why liberal Zionists fell out of love with the left.

by Joshua Leifer via The Nation on February 10, 2020

Four men model two-button suits of 1963 Paris.

The Economic, Political, and Cultural History of Menswear

Where Western men’s clothing traditions came from, how they have evolved, and how they're being continually reinterpreted.

by Derek Guy, Dennis M. Hogan via Jacobin on September 18, 2025

Walter Lippmann.

Walter Lippmann, Beyond Stereotypes

On the political theorist and the new media landscape.

by Geoff Shullenberger via Compact on June 4, 2025

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R.F.K., Jr., Anthony Fauci, and the Revolt Against Expertise

It used to be progressives who distrusted the experts. What happened?

by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on May 19, 2025

American and Israeli Jews protest outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's New York hotel in support of democracy for all in Israel-Palestine, September 19, 2023.

The Forgotten History of American Jewish Dissent Against Zionism

In resurrecting stories of non- and anti-Zionist critics, a new book shows American Jews how questioning Israel is deeply rooted in their community.

by Shaul Magid via +972 Magazine on February 14, 2024

Jewish activists demanding ceasefire in Gaza.

When ‘Nice Jewish Boys and Girls’ in the US First Took up the Palestinian Cause

According to Geoffrey Levin’s ‘Our Palestine Question,’ divides over Israeli policy aren’t new – they existed before American Jews fully embraced Zionism.

by Geoffrey Levin via The Times Of Israel on February 5, 2024

Collage image of the book "Public Opinion," featuring a man reading a newspaper.

"Public Opinion" at 100

Walter Lippmann’s seminal work identified a fundamental problem for modern democratic society that remains as pressing—and intractable—as ever.

by André Forget via The Bulwark on September 16, 2022

Drawing of Smedley Butler in front of a map background.

The Marine Who Turned Against U.S. Empire

What turned Smedley Butler into a critic of American foreign policy?

by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on January 11, 2022

A police officer standing over a victim of the Sharpeville Massacre, South Africa, March 21, 1960

The Etymology of Terror

For more than 150 years after it was coined, “terrorism” meant violence inflicted by the state on its people. How did the word come to mean the reverse?

by Matt Seaton via New York Review of Books on November 17, 2021

Nicole Collazo-Santiago leads a chant outside the Goldman Sachs Building.

Life Can Be Different: 10 Years Ago, Occupy Wall Street Changed the World

The movement launched a generation of leftist activists –and gave them a vision of real change.

by Rebecca Nathanson via The Guardian on September 15, 2021

Cover of the book These Truths by Jill Lepore.

Only Dead Metaphors Can Be Resurrected

Historical narratives of the United States have never not been shaped by an anxiety about the end of it all. Are we a new Rome or a new Zion?

by George Blaustein via European Journal Of American Studies on June 30, 2020

How the United States Reinvented Empire

Americans tend to see their country as a nation-state, not an imperial power.

by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on February 12, 2019

Pat Tillman memorial with American flags.

The NFL, the Military, and the Hijacking of Pat Tillman’s Story

Pat Tillman’s life and death is an all-American story. It’s just not the kind that Donald Trump and his supporters want it to be.

by Ryan Devereaux via The Intercept on September 28, 2017

Robert E. Lee statue

Confederate Statues Honor Timeless Virtues — Let Them Stay

Don’t let extremists on both sides destroy honor and valor, even as they seek to destroy everything else.

by Arthur Herman via National Review on August 19, 2017

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