Connections to Today

Biden Is the Latest President To Tout the Vietnam War as Proud History

When Joe Biden flew out of Hanoi last week, he was leaving a country where U.S. warfare caused roughly 3.8 million Vietnamese deaths.

Vietnam, Through the Eyes of Artists

Vietnam, Through the Eyes of Artists

“Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975,” now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. “The nation was in danger of losing its soul, and American artists — some, anyway — were trying to save theirs by denouncing what they viewed as a racist war.”

Rebecca Gordon, Turning Our Backs on Nuremberg

Rebecca Gordon, Turning Our Backs on Nuremberg

In its menacing rejection of the court, the Trump administration is turning its back on the system of international law and justice the United States helped establish at Nuremberg. The rule of law must not hold only, as hotelier Leona Helmsley once said about taxes, for “the little people.”

Vietnam’s Greatest Defense

Vietnam’s Greatest Defense

This article appeared on the website Book Hunter,  April 30, 2016. By Pham Thu Huong Why do you choose to return and...