As you leaf through the first few pages of Dr. Carl L. Hart’s book Drug Use for Grownups, you come across a quote from the writer and social critic James Baldwin. It says: “If you want to get to ...
Presidents of War by Michael Beschloss (New York: Crown, 2018); 752 pages.
Even with power in the hands of a political philosopher and statesman who understood the rabid nature of war, President ...
First Freedom: A Ride Through America’s Enduring History with the Gun by David Harsanyi (Threshold Editions, 2018); 321 pages.
In David Harsanyi’s First Freedom, an entertaining jaunt through the gun’s important place in American history, the ...
Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan by Scott Horton (Chicago: The Libertarian Institute, 2017); 317 pages.
According to official U.S. government accounts, the body of Osama bin Laden slid off the deck of ...
I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street by Matt Taibbi (New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2017); 336 pages.
On the first day of law school, Yale Professor Stephen L. Carter walks into his contracts class ...
Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism by Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall (Stanford University Press, 2018); 264 pages.
On the evening of July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson turned a protest ...
In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power by Alfred W. McCoy (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017).
In August of 2007, David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States and ...
The Violent American Century: War and Terror since World War II by John W. Dower (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017; 184 pages)
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) was livid. “In the dead of night,” the California Democrat wrote on ...
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire by Stephen Kinzer (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2017; 320 pages)
Sen. Mark Hanna, a Republican from Ohio and President William McKinley’s campaign ...
America’s War for the Greater Middle East by Andrew J. Bacevich (New York: Random House, 2016; 480 pages)
America’s military involvement in the Middle East began in classic imperial fashion, according to military historian and retired Army ...
