Tag: War
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It’s a paradox: Dominic Tierney’s political platitudes
One can almost picture Tierney offering platitudes to undergraduates at Swarthmore as he scribbles dates and quotes on the whiteboard, asking “Can America return to victory?” But by whose measure, and for what cause, should the United States return to victory?
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The pain we will not see
War, especially today, is murky enough. But how we come to see it —to experience it— ought to be informed by actual events, made public and debated.
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The war tried to kill us… The majesty of The Yellow Birds
What bleeds from these passages are not the musings of a stubborn and hungry war-machine created by the world’s most powerful military, it’s the seething helplessness felt by those tasked with responsibilities most colossal: to feign power when positioned as pawn.
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Tearing Pages: War in Prose at the New Yorker Festival
“You’re asking to tell someone else’s story,” said author ZZ Packer. “At some point you feel like a vessel instead of a stenographer.”
Adam McCauley 