On August 9, 1945, the B-29 Superfortress Bockscar opened her bomb bay doors in the skies over Nagasaki, a heavily Catholic city in Kyushu, southwestern Japan. Out of Bockscar’s belly slipped a ...

Americans hate hypocrisy. We call it out, we deride it, we claim to despise it. But what if hypocrisy isn’t only inevitable in politics but actually necessary? What if the very thing we think makes us ...

I’m always amazed this time of year, MLK Birthday celebrations, that a man as articulate as Dr. King, who spoke so eloquently on his own behalf, and with voluminous documentation of what he thought, ...

*On July 5, 1852, abolitionist Frederick Douglass stood before a crowd in Rochester, New York, and delivered what would become one of the most searing indictments of American hypocrisy ever spoken. In ...

Abroad, some have praised the demonstrations. Others call the crackdowns evidence of American hypocrisy, or of a nation coming apart. Protesters clashed with California Highway Patrol officers at the ...

In their essay “The End of Hypocrisy” (November/December 2013), Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore argue that the biggest threat from leakers of classified information such as Chelsea Manning and ...

A new book details a genocide that occurred while the United States looked away. And it is not just a Cold War story. Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan was proud of himself. It was March 26, 1971, and the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Carte-de-visite images of Frederick Douglass, from 1860 and 1865. • Come to life at the Beinecke. ...