The definitive story of the fifteen-year odyssey behind the construction of the National WW II Memorial on the Washington Mall, and what it tells us about how America memorializes its history. On Memorial Day weekend in 2004, the National World War II Memorial on the Mall in Washington will officially open to the public. What began as a casual ...
This remarkakble collection of writings provides a wide diversity of answers to one of today's most emotionally charged questions. Spanning the whole political spectrum and covering issues from jobs and the economy to race and culture, it includes the strong opinions of writers and critics from Toni Morrison to Francis Fukuyama.
A prize-winning group of war reporters and analysts looks back on the killing fields of the late twentieth century and poses provocative questions for the future of human rights. The question of the responsibility inherent in the unrivaled might of the U.S. military is one that continues to take up headlines across the globe. This award-winning ...
A polemic against the so-called "culture wars" in American public life in the mid-1990s. Mills, an editor at "Dissent", holds that the end of the Cold War has forced those on the right to look elsewhere for enemies, and they have settled upon "multicultural" groups such as homosexuals, radical feminists, welfare families, etc.
Politicians of every stripe frequently invoke the Marshall Plan in support of programs aimed at using American wealth to extend the nation's power and influence, solve intractable third-world economic problems, and combat world hunger and disease. Do any of these impassioned advocates understand why the Marshall Plan succeeded where so many ...
Dissent was founded in 1954 by intellectuals angered by the rightward drift of the country but uneasy with the dogmatism they saw on the American left, and it has provoked debates about political ideas and about American and global issues ever since. This provocative book - a collection of articles published in Dissent over the past fifty years - ...
An account of the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964 and the turning point in the Civil Rights movement. Mills recalls the triumphs of the episode but also shows how the quest for racial solidarity turned divisive and laid the foundation for the black power movement.
The essays in this collection address the real-world risks and responsibilities of intervention faced by democratic states in cases of state-sponsored killings.Contributors include Michael Ignatieff, David Rieff, and William Shawcross.
Written by some of our most influential social and political commentators, these essays span the ideological spectrum and examine how affirmative action is understood and how it is implemented. Like the successful Debating PC, this rich anthology tackles one of today's most controversial issues.
Eventually every conqueror, every imperial power, every occupying army gets out. Why do they decide to leave? And how do political and military leaders manage withdrawal? Do they take with them those who might be at risk if left behind? What are the immediate consequences of the departure? For Michael Walzer and Nicolaus Mills, now is the time to ...
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Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
