They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.

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The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug...

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug...

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to...

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to...

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the...

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the...

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by...

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by...

What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however,...

What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however,...

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government...

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government...

Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their...

Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their...

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences...

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences...

Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date...

Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date...

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is...

The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is...

I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.

I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though...

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though...

Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.

Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American...

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American...

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places...

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places...

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars...

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars...