In April 1975, Americans didn’t want to think about the Vietnamese friends we left behind.
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What the Vietnamese Will Ask Kamala Harris When She Visits
Lecturing in Ho Chi Minh City recently, I learned how urgently bright young people there want to understand what’s happening here. Their future may depend on it.
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What I Learned Teaching Students In Vietnam
Call it closing-the-distance learning. Thanks to guest lecturers like Joy Reid and Margaret Carlson, I saw how shared understanding bridges the Washington-Hanoi divide.
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Did Vietnam Send Us Their Best?
When our country was faced with a flood of refugees from Vietnam, the Senate voted unanimously to accept them. That would never happen today.
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Trump’s Trip to Asia Will Make Things Worse
Twelve days in Asia will only compound the president’s perilous situation.
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Was It Worth It?
A new book shatters many myths about Vietnam, but misses the larger point.
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On Political Books
The literature of “neoconservatism,” which has built up in magazines like Commentary and The American Spectator over the last half-dozen years, deals at one level with public policy, but its emotional power springs from another source. Whether the stated object of discussion is racial quotas and ‘affirmative action,” nuclear versus solar power, or America’s response […]
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“…And if this just another job, then by God, I’m a sorry suck-egg mule!”
In the stone buildings of Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, near the track on which the young Jim Thorpe set his records as a student at the Carlisle Indian School, officers on their way to the top attend the Army War College. The students wear civilian clothes to de-emphasize difference in rank and to foster an “academic” […]
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Mary McCarthy—The Blinders She Wears
Last March the New York Review of Books published two articles about the Americans who had been held as prisoners of war in North Vietnam and who are now telling their stories in print. One of the articles was by Anthony Lewis, and it reached a conclusion not easily swallowed by those who regarded our […]
