One characteristic that sets humans apart from other animals is the capability to organize sustained warfare against members of their own species, a troubling fact that connects to the problem of PTSD, says Michael Brenner.
Category: Lost History
The Democrats’ Joe McCarthy Moment
Australia, Tagging Along into Other Nations’ Wars
The Right’s Made-up ‘Constitution’
Good Deaths in Mosul, Bad Deaths in Aleppo
The Warnings of a New World War
How America Expunges Bad Memories
America is a place that expunges unpleasant memories that belie the happier vision of its “exceptionalism,” most notably the brutal ugliness of the Vietnam War and more recent war crimes in the Middle East, observes Michael Brenner.