Virginia Sciolino writes about America’s military industrial complex and its dependency on nationalism, giving arguments for being anti-war.
“Imagine the government forcing you from your home, being imprisoned in a detention camp under armed guards and behind barbed wire—and then being required to join the military to fight for the nation that had locked up you and your family,” Susan H. Kamei writes. “That’s what happened in a little-known chapter of U.S. history, in which many of those men went on to become American military heroes, some making the ultimate sacrifice.”
As a scholar and lawyer focused on freedom of speech in the U.S., I have studied the federal government’s attempts to restrict speech, including during World War I, and the legal cases that challenged them,” Eric P. Robinson writes. These cases helped form the modern idea of the First Amendment right of free speech. But the conflict between patriotism and free expression continues to be an issue a century later.”
Author and MFP Advisory Board member Joseph B. Atkins writes that the true motivation behind U.S. leaders’ investment in the war in Ukraine is greed. “The neoliberal establishment in Washington is bound and determined to cripple Russia even at the risk of countless deaths, not only in Ukraine but around the world,” he writes.
“Tucker Carlson’s central premise is that modern society has devitalized American men,” Connor Hefferman writes. “As a historian of physical culture, I see Carlson’s claims as part of a rich heritage of skeptics shouting from the rooftops that American men are becoming devitalized, lazy and effeminate.”
Opera Mississippi Artistic Director Dean believed it was critical to assemble a group of musicians who could best replicate the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s classic sound. Dean immediately knew that his colleague Sam Bruton was the perfect person to lead the quartet.
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