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Clare Morgana Gillis

Clare Morgana Gillis is a historian and journalist. She earned her PhD in 2010 and has written for publications including The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and The American Scholar.

Brutality and Spectacle

Sometime in 2003, the year that George W. Bush sent U.S. forces into Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein, I was sitting in a graduate seminar with Harvard history professor Roger Owen when he made a comment that lodged in my mind. Like other scholars, Owen was not entirely ...