Tag: war

Columns

Soldier of Fortune

Jasper Craven

July 09, 2020

The private wars of VA Secretary Robert Wilkie.

Amnesiac Warmongers

Chris Gelardi

March 27, 2020

Obama staffers launder their culpability in Yemen.

Against Virtuosity

John Semley

February 12, 2020

Recently, idling away an especially rainy Saturday in January, I found myself sinking a solid six hours into Sony Interactive Entertainment’s 2018 blockbuster game God of War: a stupid-violent farrago of Greek and Norse mythology notable for employing a fixed, ...

The Long Arm of the Law

Lyle Jeremy Rubin

January 27, 2020

The dangerous rise of the global “good cop.”

Bombs Away

Lorissa Rinehart

October 21, 2019

How ads for drones and military payload delivery systems invaded our timelines

Inside the Tulsi Hive

Evan Malmgren

July 31, 2019

Who exactly is buying what Tulsi Gabbard is selling?

Dinner with a War Criminal

Dave Denison

June 25, 2019

Revisiting Henry Kissinger’s murderous legacy in the era of Trump.

American Sports and the Forever War

Ross Barkan

June 04, 2019

When the military is brought to the ball field season after season, the subtext is the eternal war, and its justification.

Under the Boot

Lyle Jeremy Rubin

February 12, 2019

For all his talk of leaving the right, Max Boot hasn’t wandered too far from home.

War is a Racket

The Nostalgia Trap

August 09, 2018

Nate Bethea is co-host of the podcast A Hell of a Way to Die.

Mapping the Face of War

The Nostalgia Trap

July 25, 2018

Bhakti Shringarpure is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Warscapes, an online magazine.

Syriana

Max B. Sawicky

April 16, 2018

“‘Explosion without an objective,’ declared Miles Blundell, ‘is politics in its purest form.’”—Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day   U.S. Imperialism should be a thing again, but some theoretical adjustment is suggested. Scholarly analyses have tied it to narrow ...