Key events in history sometimes aren’t obvious in the moment. They tend to be strange things, ripe with details that can maneuver them...

During the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Americans and the Russians drew upon specific castes for their...

Perhaps against my better judgment, I attended arts programs for my university degrees, and I often came across the debate concerning...

The late French philosopher Paul Virilio, who wrote extensively on the nature and consequence of technological development, once said...

On the morning of May 27, 1941, the British Royal Navy finally hunted down the great German battleship Bismarck. They had been on this...

In the 1973 film A Clockwork Orange, a group a young men gallivant around town committing acts of pointless “ultraviolence.” They laugh...

Now what of the guns? As the mass killing of strangers has become more routine, it’s become customary for the media to greet each event...

As the advent of the Digital Age accelerated a psychic fracture at the individual level, the fracture of America at the social level has...

Before the bodies of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold and their victims turned cold in Colorado, public discourse turned toward media. As...

The first “mass shooting” as we now understand it probably took place at a San Diego McDonalds in 1984. On July 17 of that year, James...

There aren’t many today who know the names Cassie Bernall and Valeen Schnurr. They were both in the library of Columbine High on April...

I recently sat down and watched Oliver Stone’s JFK for the first time. It’s one of those movies I had seen pieces of as a kid on TBS or...

If the coming decades prove brighter for our descendants than the decades in which we have lived till now, then these pages may only be...

On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, David John Moore Cornwell — better known by his pen name John le Carre — published an easy in...

The German folktale Hansel and Gretel is a story of inter-generational war. The children are forced into conflict with both their parents...

The trailer for Hulu’s Under the Banner of Heaven piqued my interest a few months back. Not because the show looked especially good,...

In his 2007 documentary Encounters at the End of the World, Werner Herzog visits the humans who work in the remote ice of Antarctica....

At the Battle of Omdurman in 1898, a British army under General Kitchener took on a Mahdist force outside of what is now Khartoum in...

I’ve changed my thinking on nuclear energy in recent years, and it's taken a decided turn toward the skeptical. It’s ironic that the...

When breaking down prisoners of war, it’s a common practice to begin with very small lies. Western powers have used this tactic, but it’s...