John Fabian Witt is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is the author of numerous works on the history of American law and torts, and is currently focusing on the laws of war. Before joining Zócalo to explain the turning point of international law development during the Mexican War in the 1840s, he joined us in our Green Room for a few questions…
Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers
by Andrea di Robilant
–Reviewed by Ellen O’Connell
Andrea di Robilant’s new book Irresistible North opens with a bold claim: maybe, just maybe, two Venetian brothers named Nicoló and Antonio Zen traveled to parts of the new world in the 1380s, more than a century before Columbus…
Where I Go is a new feature from Zócalo in which contributors describe—in a few words or in a few hundred words—a place in which they find a sense of connection to people or place. Kicking things off is writer Meghan Lewit, who relates the joys of belonging to a tenth-rate fitness club…
by Lance Larsen
Feed the road your best intentions, it demands
not sandal or boot but blistered foot.
Feed time a thank you, watch it dice
your life into hours and hang them on a calendar…
Many Americans, Joseph Nye says, still think of their country’s role in the world as “the Lone Ranger riding into town and shooting the bad guys.” It’s a notion that he argues is not only hopelessly out of date but harmful to international relations…
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