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This is Murray Polner's blog. Polner, who writes book reviews for HNN, is the author of “No Victory Parades: The Return of the Vietnam Veteran” and “When Can We Come Home? A Debate on Amnesty for Exiles, Anti-War Prisoners and Others.”
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Sep 6, 2017 1:46 pm
Baseball, the Brooklyn Dodgers and Me
by Murray Polner
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Aug 29, 2017 10:24 am
Hush,Hush, Silent Democrats
by Murray Polner
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Aug 8, 2017 11:06 am
The Deep South and the Rest of Us
by Murray Polner
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Jul 20, 2017 3:08 pm
"Kill Jpan" or My High School Life During WWII
by Murray Polner
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Jul 3, 2017 4:45 pm
We Really Could Use Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev Now
by Murray Polner
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Jun 11, 2017 11:54 am
You Can Say Anything You Want, but ...
by Murray Polner
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Apr 23, 2017 11:43 am
Nuclear War Anyone?
by Murray Polner
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Apr 7, 2017 10:04 am
The Road to Success: Bombs, Missiles, Maybe Even Boots on the Ground
by Murray Polner
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Mar 14, 2017 11:08 am
On Obama's Failure to Reshape US Foreign Policy
by Murray Polner
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Feb 23, 2017 10:48 am
A Nuclear War?
by Murray Polner
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Feb 10, 2017 12:02 pm
Whose Kids Are Ready to Fight and Die for Kiev and Tallinn?
by Murray Polner
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Jan 28, 2017 3:56 pm
Blacklists
by Murray Polner
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Jan 20, 2017 11:32 am
They Stood Their Ground Against War
by Murray Polner
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Jan 8, 2017 6:26 pm
American Civil Obedience: Patriotically Accepting War
by Murray Polner
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Dec 29, 2016 4:49 pm
Has Obama "Betrayed " israel at the UN?
by Murray Polner
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Dec 12, 2016 12:54 pm
An Election John Wayne Would Have Liked
by Murray Polner
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Nov 11, 2016 3:11 pm
Trumpism: At Home & Abroad
by Murray Polner
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Oct 16, 2016 10:15 am
Losing Our Souls or Why the New Cold War Will Be Worse than the Old Cold War
by Murray Polner
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Sep 22, 2016 11:54 am
Smith, Snowden, Manning, Kaepernick & Moral Courage
by Murray Polner
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Jul 29, 2016 10:41 am
SHOW BIZ, or Thoughts About Our Two Conventions
by Murray Polner
News
- Forty Years Later, the Voyager Spacecraft Remain Beacons of Human Imagination
- How ‘The Vietnam War’ Surprised Co-Director Lynn Novick
- America's Changing Religious Identity
- LA votes to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day
- American Exceptionalism? Voters aren’t sharing the feeling these days.
- A historian will tell this to students who enroll in her Hitler class this Fall
- Historian comes out in defense of HBO’s counterfactual ‘Confederate’
- Max Boot: "I came to this country 41 years ago. Now I feel like I don’t belong here.”
- Louis Warren says we’ve gotten the Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee wrong
- How Labor Scholars Missed the Trump Revolt