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...profound habit -- and sometimes a necessity. When Neville Chamberlain declared ''peace for our time'' after Munich, he gave peacemakers a reputation for fatuous optimism and appeasement from which it took them years to recover. Philosophers of war since Hiroshima have taught, hopefully, that the nuclear threat has made armed conflict ultimately untenable as a Clausewitzian instrument (foreign policy that happens to kill) useful in settling disputes. But not everyone has absorbed the lesson. Among other things, war has an archetypal prestige and bristling drama with which peace has trouble competing: Milton's Lucifer in Paradise Lost is much more interesting...
...room film projector like pornos, moaning orgasmically as Martin Sheen’s helicopter swoops down on Vietnamese villages while Wagner’s “The Ride of the Valkyries” blares in the background. But Swofford and his fellow marines never get the conflict they want to fight. When the war ends without climax, the soldiers fire their rifles in the air in a masturbatory barrage. As the soldiers go home, it’s clear the Marine Corps has been a cocktease and a cheap date; it dehumanized and psychologically damaged its men. Although Mendes...
...harsh visual description of inequality, Abu-Assad forces the viewer to consider the conditions that push people in the direction of violence. The film doesn’t legitimize violence, nor does it take an overtly political stance in terms of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is aware of the issues but never didactic. Rather, the goal is to challenge our natural impulse to dehumanize suicide bombers as one-dimensionally evil...
Sidanius is currently in the Psychology Department at UCLA. Excited to come to Harvard, Sidanius specializes in intergroup conflict and social dominance theory...
During his short conversation with FM, the conflict still seemed to be hanging heavily over West’s mind. “I am much freer under [Princeton University President] Shirley [M.] Tilghman than I was under Larry Summers,” he said...