Current Events

Originally posted in History is Now Magazine in June 2024 Today, when most people think of Afghanistan, they recall the Biden administration’s calamitous withdrawal in the summer of 2021 and the end of what many have termed a ‘forever war.’ Tragically, the Taliban’s victory reversed two decades of effort to establish liberal institutions and...

This month is the eighty-first anniversary of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, which triggered America’s entry into World War II.  Such events are not top of mind for most Americans.  We seem exhausted after two decades of the global war on terror.  As someone who came of age during the Cold War, I find myself asking “when did World War III become...