Hiroshima

Decades ago, when I began teaching international history, I used to ask students if they thought it was possible for nations to end their fighting of wars against one another. Their responses varied. But the more pessimistic conclusions were sometimes tempered by the contention that, if the world’s nations faced…

By Emeka Obasi There is something to cheer about the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the world. All attention may be out of our shores where people are giving up in thousands, my eyes are on Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu. I must admit that Sanwo-Olu did not sound wonderful to me prior…

Which is worse, based upon what. All of them were flawed and fighting their inner demons and, one has to presume, doing their best to both survive and do well by their individual nations. Stalin’s inhumanity is not surprising given the nature of the economics and political regimes that preceded…

In a recent essay, New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman asked “Can City Life Survive Coronavirus?” It seems an apt question in this extraordinary time of mandated retreat from public life.  City streets and spaces normally teeming with people are nearly deserted now, evoking scenes from a Terry Gilliam film.  In…

To the Soviet military, it is known as the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. Although it had no official name to the Japanese, it has become known in the West as Operation August Storm. It was the greatest defeat in Japanese military history, yet few outside the circles of Japanese and Soviet…

“Hummingbird eggs, right outside of my door, are the size of a small jellybean.”“My dad owns original animation cells from “How The Grinch Stole Christmas”, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, and “The Little Mermaid””“This cupcake looks like a manatee.”“A glass that broke vertically.”“Uncomfortably large meat tube.”“The way this tree root is…

Marine life ravaged by years of fishing activity, nuclear tests and chemical pollution could see a "substantial recovery" by 2050 if world governments invest billions a year in restoration, according to a study released Wednesday.Researchers say governments would have to invest up to $20 billion US a year to continue…

Spring 2018–Winter 2019 On style and violence Mark Dorrian Blended anatomies. Richard Hamilton, Hers Is a Lush Situation, 1958. In January 1961, the eminent architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner gave an address at the London headquarters of the Royal Institute of British Architects during which he reflected upon troubling developments that…

The rescheduled Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics should bring the world back together in a reinvigorated spirit of Olympism — the ideal that sport should be conducted at the service of humane social development, international understanding and peace. While it’s often forgotten today in the preoccupation with medals and marketing, Olympism…

The story is told from the viewpoint of some vaguely unknown intelligent life-forms that live a few hundred light-years from where we do now. And there’s a scientist in it – an observer. They’re reporting on the observations of radio transmissions from several planets in the nearish neighborhood. It has…