Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Monday 18 May 2015

It's Madness to Keep on Developing Nuclear Weapons, so Why Do We?

by David P. Barash
It's because our Stone Age brain finds it hard to think straight about weapons whose mass destruction we find it almost impossible to fathom.

The Vietnam War Revisioned by Those Who Opposed It

by James W Loewen
Reasons why peace movement alumni find it harder to congratulate themselves, compared to Civil Rights Movement alumni.

Yes, Congress Has A Role In Foreign Affairs

by Kevin R. Kosar
After Senate Republicans signed a letter to Iran critics howled that Congress was trying to usurp the president’s role in foreign policy. The critics are wrong.

6 Predictions About What Will Happen in Syria

by James L. Gelvin
None of them are hopeful, unfortunately.

Remember the Kerner Commission Report? Here's What You Don't Know.

by Steven M. Gillon
What made it speak to America was the last-minute work of a couple of wordsmiths.

The Vietnam War: After Forty Years

by Lawrence S. Wittner
A visit to Vietnam reinforces the conclusion that the war was an awful waste, but surprisingly now Vietnam and the US are friendly.

Why Aren’t American Museums Doing more to Return Nazi-Looted Art?

by Elizabeth Campbell Karlsgodt
17 years after the US hosted the Washington conference on Nazi-confiscated art and pledged to facilitate “just and fair” solutions, a lack of transparency in American museums remains.

This Is Microhistory?

by Rebecca Hill
Historians have one definition of microhistory. Readers often have another.

Review of John Merriman’s “Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune”

by Ron Briley
Drawing upon French primary source documents, Merriman has written an engaging history addressed to the general reader which poses important questions regarding working-class autonomy, class conflict, and state-sponsored terrorism which resonate in the contemporary world.

Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination: An Interview With Robeson Taj Frazier

by Aaron Leonard
When DuBois visited China and other forgotten history from the Cold War.

Review of Bryan Burrough’s "Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence"

by Shawn Francis Peters
Bryan Burrough’s hefty new book is a vivid, engrossing, and far-ranging work that provides a detailed glimpse of a half-dozen underground radical groups in the Vietnam era and its aftermath.

Review of Christian G. Appy’s "American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity"

by Ron Briley
A call for a national reckoning with the myth of American exceptionalism.

King Tut: The 3,300 Year Old Greatest Show on Earth

by Bruce Chadwick
The boy Pharaoh from the Valley of the Kings retains his star persona and remains the number one entertainment attraction in America.

Roundup Top 10!

This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.