Max Missel 405th Telegraph Battalion, U.S. Army Signal Corps Enlisted: Los Angeles, CA. December 11, 1917 Reported: Camp Lewis, WA. December 15, 1917 Discharged: Presidio, San Francisco, CA . June 30, 1919 Max Missel was born October 18, 1895 in Kovno, Russia (now...
BOOK REVIEW—The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World By Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro Almost since the day of its signing on August 27, 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact—formally known as the General Treaty for Renunciation of War...
War is mankind’s oldest story. In the Iliad war is presented as a choice of the gods. Insecure, vengeful and proud, it is the gods who direct soldiers into brutal and deadly combat. As Homer tells it, the force of war is so deeply ingrained in the human experience...
This transcript is posted with the kind permission of The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC. Brian Lehrer: A little over 100 years ago, in February of 1914, the industrialist Andrew Carnegie started an organization whose goal is was to put an end to war forever through...
Dear Mr. Carnegie, As the current president of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, it is my privilege to report to you on the eve of the 100th anniversary of our founding. It is not often that we have an opportunity to think in terms of 100...
Originally published on October 20, 2002. “The Fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” So begins Isaiah Berlin’s essay, “The Hedgehog and Fox.” One year after September 11, 2001, in the midst of a still evolving “war on terrorism,” it is...
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