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Archive for October, 2010
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Posted By Zócalo On October 21, 2010Where We Go Wrong in War
Posted By Zócalo On October 21, 2010
Only 12 years passed between the U.S.’s first war with Iraq and its second, but both were plagued by the same problem: postwar turmoil. As Gideon Rose explores in How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle, understanding the relationship between the war and the aftermath has been a challenge for American policymakers as far back as World War I. Below, Rose explains just how badly we handled planning for peace in Iraq — particularly since military strategists knew the challenges that would arise — and how we need to change our conception of war, diplomacy, politics and where they meet.
How Religion is Transforming America
Posted By Zócalo On October 21, 2010
The recent uproar over building a mosque and community center near Ground Zero illustrated an interesting paradox about religion in America.
“America is very religiously devout and religiously diverse,” said Robert Putnam, the groundbreaking political scientist and author of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. “In most places in the world, that combination produces mayhem — Belfast, Bosnia, Beirut, Baghdad, Bombay.”
But the U.S. is, he said, “surprisingly tolerant across racial lines.”
How Religion Has Changed Since ‘The Ten Commandments’
Posted By Zócalo On October 21, 2010
In American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, political scientist Robert Putnam drew from the two broadest surveys on religion in the U.S. to explore how the landscape of faith has transformed over the last 50 years. In the excerpt below, Putnam outlines how drastically our relationship to religion has changed since the days of “The Ten Commandments” and the John Kennedy candidacy.
Why 2008 Changed Everything for Women
Posted By Zócalo On October 21, 2010
Rebecca Traister followed Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign from its beginnings for Salon magazine. But it wasn’t until Clinton was out of the running — and when John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate — that Traister began to see the story that would become Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women
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