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An Honorable Exit — France in Vietnam

7/17/2023

Folks, I’m shifting my small output these days to Substack https://williamkirkland.substack.com/ This is recent contribution Will Every war has winner …

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Despised and Rejected by A.T. Fitzroy

3/27/2021

Despised and Rejected by A.T. Fitzroy (the pseudonym for Rose Allatini) was not only one of the  first novels to …

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The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge

12/19/2019

  One winter afternoon Comrade Tulayev, an important Party official, is shot dead.  By the time The Case of Comrade …

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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf

10/25/2019

  One of the most important scientists of the western tradition, and about whom we in America know little, is …

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Dominance and Dishonesty

10/30/2018

“Men will not cease to be dishonest, merely because their dishonesties have been revealed or because they have discovered their …

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Barbs on War

8/31/2018

  “They were in the jelly of youth, and this learned Professor poured into their susceptible hearts all the gentle …

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All The Kings Men: Old Templates for New Demagogues

7/18/2018

  After recent study and due consideration I can say with certainty that to call President Trump the reincarnation of …

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J.D.Salinger – War Troubled

6/26/2018

Combing through the archives for my proposed magnum hopus, “What We Talk About When We Talk About War,” I came …

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How War Began – Way Back Then

5/4/2017

Why do we do it, so often, with such relish? Go to war, that is.  Is it locked into our …

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The Populist Explosion by John Judis

3/6/2017

The word “populism” has re-entered the American vocabulary with more force than since it first made an appearance in the …

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A Matter of Degrees

4/21/2016

These are notes I took while reading Gino Segre’s A Matter of Degrees (2002) when it first came out.  This …

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WW I In The Italian Alps: Torneranno i Prati by Ermanno Olmi

10/21/2015

Ermanno Olmi is best known in the United States for his 1978 movie, The Tree of Wooden Clogs, even though …

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