We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.

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War is an abstraction.

War is an abstraction.

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how...

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how...

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in...

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in...

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...

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...

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...

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.

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put...

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put...

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript,...

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript,...

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...

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes...

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes...

The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.

The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.

The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small...

The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small...

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...

Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.

Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.

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.

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...