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A watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

The Complications of Graham Platner’s Veteran IdentityHow much of Graham Platner’s behavior should be read through the lens of what combat did to him, and how much of it is simply who he is, independent of war?www.newyorker.com

Yes. Smart.

Any historian who accepts this dirty money is dead to me. The next post links to the reason why. nyhistory.org/about/david-...

David M. Rubenstein Prize for the Advancement of American History | The New York HistoricalAnnual prize to honor a historian, educator, content creator, or institutional leader who excels in promoting American historynyhistory.org

In which the author exults. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/my-moment-...

Marcus Goguen is the best athlete ever. The lowest-ranking competitor on the Freeride World Tour is a better athlete than the top competitors in the NBA, MLB NHL, NFL, Premiere League. Fight me.

Show TPM the money. As I've written, "If you are interested in how the American right went insane, TalkingPointsMemo.com is your actual publication of record." accounts.talkingpointsmemo.com/contribute

The New Yorker Radio Hour this week has a feature about Rahm Emanuel's Israel speech, and the web page links to my 2015 exposé of him that ran on the New Yorker web site, "The Sudden But Well-Deserved Fall of Rahm Emanuel." Fun! www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c...

The Sudden But Well-Deserved Fall of Rahm EmanuelIt’s hard to remember a time when Rahm Emanuel wasn’t a Democratic Party superstar.www.newyorker.com