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Sharmine Narwani on the end of the Syrian war and the "post-imperial Middle East"

Sharmine Narwani on the end of the Syrian war and the “post-imperial Middle East”

April 28, 2019 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Middle East correspondent Narwani sees a new era emerging in Asia, while Trump, Pompeo and Bolton bluster In part one of my exchange with Sharmine Narwani, the Beirut-based correspondent dissected the just-ended Syrian conflict as one of the very few journalists…

Reporter Sharmine Narwani on the secret history of America's defeat in Syria

Reporter Sharmine Narwani on the secret history of America’s defeat in Syria

April 21, 2019 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

After years covering the “main battlefield in World War III,” Narwani says everything you think you know is wrong When the war in Syria was recently declared decisively over, there were few correspondents or witnesses to turn to for a…

David Hendrickson: We Need a ‘New Internationalism’

David Hendrickson: We Need a ‘New Internationalism’

November 2, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in The Nation.

The author and professor in conversation. A friend recently told me about a book he was assigned to review and thought I should read. When he mentioned the title, Republic in Peril: American Empire and the Liberal Tradition, I ordered it…

Scholar Robert Meister on a new model: Using the financial markets to fuel historical justice

Scholar Robert Meister on a new model: Using the financial markets to fuel historical justice

July 8, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Revolutionary thinker and author of “After Evil” on how the financial markets could be leveraged toward justice Part 1 of my illuminating interview with Robert Meister, the author of “After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights,” explored some of the…

Scholar Robert Meister on America: Saying “the past is evil” doesn’t mean the evil is past

Scholar Robert Meister on America: Saying “the past is evil” doesn’t mean the evil is past

July 1, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Part 1: A leading critic of “human rights discourse” on how we abandoned any sense of historical justice I first came upon Robert Meister a few years ago, when Peter Dimock, a singularly gifted novelist whose judgment I trust, urged…

A Conversation With Richard Falk

January 19, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

The scholar, adviser to governments and civil-society groups, and advocate of Palestinian rights speaks on international law and world affairs. It is hard to place Richard Falk in any category that usefully describes the man. Princeton scholar, international lawyer, adviser…

Making history safe again: What Ken Burns gets wrong about Vietnam

Making history safe again: What Ken Burns gets wrong about Vietnam

October 15, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Historian Christian Appy: Vietnam was not a “tragic misunderstanding” but a campaign of “imperial aggression” Three questions came to mind when news arrived that “The Vietnam War,” the latest documentary film from Ken Burns (co-directed with Lynn Novick), would air…

An Interview With Stephen Kinzer, Part 2

An Interview With Stephen Kinzer, Part 2

September 27, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

The award-winning foreign correspondent and author of The True Flagspeaks about the state of US foreign policy and the media. Stephen Kinzer’s The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of the American Empire, published earlier this year, drew me…

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