Greg Grandin
Greg Grandin teaches history at New York University and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His most recent book is, Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman. His previous books include, The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World and Fordlandia, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history.
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Views Monday, January 14, 2019 How Not to Build a “Great, Great Wall” The point was less to actually build “the wall” than to constantly announce the building of the wall. “We started building our wall. I’m so proud of it,” Donald Trump tweeted . “What a thing of beauty.” In fact, no wall , or certainly not the “ big, fat, beautiful ” one promised by Trump, is being... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 30, 2017 How the 1989 War on Manuel Noriega’s Panama Super-Charged US Militarism M anuel Noriega is dead at 83 . He seems like a sad footnote to the last disastrous quarter century, but the December 1989 US invasion of Panama really was a permission slip for Washington—led by both Republicans and Democrats—to waste whatever potential benefits the end of the Cold War might have... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 07, 2017 Trump Hits His Target: Domestic Critics Who Think He’s Too Close to Putin and Not Interventionist 1. The bombing was for domestic consumption. According to The New York Times , “The Pentagon informed Russian military officials, through its established deconfliction channel, of the strike before the launching of the missiles, the official said, with American officials knowing when they did that... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 09, 2015 Waging Endless War From Vietnam to Syria In April 2014, ESPN published a photograph of an unlikely duo: Samantha Power, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and former national security adviser and secretary of state Henry Kissinger at the Yankees-Red Sox season opener. In fleece jackets on a crisp spring day, they were visibly enjoying... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 28, 2015 Debacle, Inc.: How Henry Kissinger Helped Disorder the World The only person Henry Kissinger flattered more than President Richard Nixon was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. In the early 1970s, the Shah, sitting atop an enormous reserve of increasingly expensive oil and a key figure in Nixon and Kissinger’s move into the Middle East, wanted to be... Read more |
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Views Friday, September 11, 2015 The TPP Will Finish What Chile’s Dictatorship Started T his September 11th will be the forty-second anniversary of the US-backed coup against the democratically-elected Chilean government, led by the Socialist Salvador Allende, kicking off a battle that is still being fought: in Chile, protests led by students, indigenous peoples, and workers to... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 28, 2015 Are You Haitian? “Are you Haitian?” That’s the question the Dominican consular officer in New York City asked of Dan-el Padilla Peralta, a Dominican writer living in New York who describes himself as “dark-skinned and nappy-headed,” when he recently tried to renew his passport. Padilla, who eventually did get his... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 07, 2015 The Confederate Flag at War (But Not the Civil War) The Pentagon just can’t let go. In the wake of the Charleston Massacre, Amazon and Walmart have announced that they will no longer sell Confederate flag merchandise. Ebay says it will stop offering Confederate items for electronic auction. The Republican governor of Mississippi calls his state flag... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 22, 2014 The War to Start All Wars: The 25th Anniversary of the Forgotten Invasion of Panama As we end another year of endless war in Washington, it might be the perfect time to reflect on the War That Started All Wars -- or at least the war that started all of Washington’s post-Cold War wars: the invasion of Panama. Twenty-five years ago this month, early on the morning of December 20,... Read more |
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Views Monday, February 24, 2014 The Bleached Bones of the Dead: What the Modern World Owes Slavery Many in the United States were outraged by the remarks of conservative evangelical preacher Pat Robertson, who blamed Haiti’s catastrophic 2010 earthquake on Haitians for selling their souls to Satan. Bodies were still being pulled from the rubble -- as many as 300,000 died -- when Robertson went on TV and gave his viewing audience a little history lesson: the Haitians had been "under the heel of the French" but they "got together and swore a pact to the devil. Read more |