Between the Issues

Comic books depicting men at war were quite popular during World War Two, particularly among soldiers,  as Paul Buhle and Raymond Tyler note in the afterword to the new graphic history of anti-fascist resistance that they edited.  Their anthology of illustrated stories about partisans in Greece, Yugoslavia, Russia, Holland, Italy, Hungary, France, and Spain offers…

The Perspective of An Elder As a member of the sun-setting generation, our role is to advise and consent. Our principal source of ideas is experience. For me personally, this has included the honour of serving my country, now two countries of Sudan and South Sudan, in senior positions at home and diplomatically abroad. Pertinent…

I am very thankful to Logos Journal editor Gregory Zucker and Gamaliel Isaac for the opportunity to add more information and references to my article. Neither my article nor this response aims to justify the horrific war crimes of Hamas. Following this, I find it unnecessary to argue with Gamaliel Isaac on Israel’s justification for…

Introduction: This article is a rebuttal to Menachem Klein’s article, How Israeli Society Became Genocidal.1  The title of his article presupposes that Israeli society is genocidal but are they? How can we assess if most Israelis are genocidal?   One way is to interview them.  The best way to understand if the Israeli government is genocidal…

An Unprecedented Scale of Violence The war that began on October 7, 2023, and tragically remains ongoing in Gaza, is a pivotal event whose full implications have yet to be understood. Still, it would not be unwarranted to suggest that its domestic and regional consequences will rival those of the 1948 and 1967 wars. The…

As Michael Kazin, the Co-Editor of Dissent has recently pointed out in a Times Op Ed there has always been cultural a civil war in the United States In that Op-Edh he points to the Scopes Trial of 1925 as emblematic of that war, pitting a largely rural population of Biblical believers against “urban liberalism.”…

Decades ago, I read an article in The New York Review of Books that created a lasting impression. It was penned by the late, famed, Harvard biologist, Richard Lewontin. The piece began with Lewontin describing how he and the astronomer, Carl Sagan, had engaged in a debate with defenders of creationism in a large public…

The Budget Reform and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 had two goals: to prevent Richard Nixon from blocking the disbursement of appropriated funds, and to establish a budgeting process whereby Congress could assert long-term control over the relationship between government spending and taxation. The Act established Budget Committees, mandated annual budget resolutions, and created a…

Talking about the bloody absurdity of any war is depressing. Yet, there is no way to talk about politics in the Middle East without confronting the hideous and horrifying reality of the war. It looks like the wasting away of peace in this region of the world is accompanied by a sense of impending catastrophe.…

While I am not a historical determinist, I believe that history moves in ways that are broadly dialectical. Political currents that traverse one direction often change course and move in an opposite one, often eluding precise predictions. Mid-twentieth-century fascism reflected what was arguably the nadir of conduct in the entire career of humankind. Auschwitz was…