The Irish Civil War Fatalities Project, launched today, lists all of the combatant and civilian fatalities in the Irish Civil War.
The dystopian thriller “Civil War” has been the No. 1 film at the U.S. box office for the last two weekends. But viewers, liberals and conservatives alike, should be aware that Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s propagandists are hoping that a second American Civil War actually happens. After the House approved the $61 billion Ukraine aid package on Saturday, the hawkish former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who is the deputy chairman of Russia’s security council, wrote on Telegram: “I cannot...
Law enforcement officers have moved into a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA. Arizona lawmakers voted to repeal a Civil War-era abortion ban.
Erik Larson offers in his latest work a close look at slavery, antebellum Charleston, and the cause of the War of the Rebellion.
Back from their month-long recess, our lawmakers of the 19th Congress resumed their sessions last Monday.
"Some have suggested that modern America doesn’t have issues sufficiently contentious to provide such a spark. I’m not so sure."
The new film Civil War is a historic cinematic achievement. British director Alex Garland has made a movie that might be worse than a real American civil war. Perhaps that was Garland’s intention. His film is a series of horrifying set pieces—Abu Ghraib-style torture by gas station attendants, government aerial bombings of civilians, summary execution of journalists, a massive California and Texas invasion of Washington, D.C.—that seem to add up to a warning. If we don’t steer away from our...
Civil War eschews the typical trappings of a combat action movie by turning the lens not toward the soldiers but to the photographers capturing them. And while it excels in some aspects of its portrayal, it falters when it comes to the big stuff. [Read More]
Alex Garland wasn't kidding. The writer/director of 'Civil War' said his dystopian thriller didn't take political sides. The film bears that out, focusing entirely on journalists scrambling to cover a country at war with itself. The problem? 'Civil War' isn't action-packed in a traditional, rah-rah sense. Nor does it shed new light on what it means to be a war correspondent. What's left? Visceral moments and the sense that almost anything can happen on screen. Like Garland's previous film 'Men,'...
I finally got around to reading “2034,” which is a bit of fiction that describes what a conflict between China and the United States in 2034 might look like.
The ferry ride to the middle of Charleston Harbor can be a journey back in