[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 3/26/20: Links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"Judgment Day for the National Security State: The Coronavirus and the
Real Threats to American Safety and Freedom"*
<http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176680>
By *Andrew Bacevich, *TomDispatch.com, posted March 26
*The author is a professor emeritus of history and international relations
at Boston University and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible
Statecraft.*

*"The World's Major Military and Economic Powers Find Happiness Elusive"*
<https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/25/worlds-major-military-and-economic-powers-find-happiness-elusive>
By* Lawrence Wittner, *Common Dreams, posted March 25
*A short, modest piece comparing military and economic rankings on the one
hand with polls of self-reported happiness on the other. The author is a
professor emeritus of history at SUNY Albany. *

*"What Our Contagion Fables Are Really About"*
<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/30/what-our-contagion-fables-are-really-about?reload>
*By Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, *posted March 23
*On the literature of pestilence, from Daniel Defoe's *Journal of the
Plague Year *to Albert Camus's *The Plague* and Jose Saramago's *Blindness.*The
author teaches history at Harvard University.*

*"The Cultural Constants of Contagion"*
<http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174671>
By* Ed Simon, *History News Network, posted March 22
*Draws parallels between human responses to plagues in world history
starting with "Justinian's Plague" in the sixth century. The author is a
contributing editor of the History News Network.*

*"Thucydides and the Plague of Athens - What It Can Teach Us Now"*
<https://theconversation.com/thucydides-and-the-plague-of-athens-what-it-can-teach-us-now-133155>
By *Chris Mackie, **The Conversation, *posted March 19
*The author teaches Classics at La Trobe University.*

*"A 'Once-in-a-Century Pathogen' : The 1918 Pandemic and This One"*
<https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/03/17/a-once-in-a-century-pathogen-the-1918-pandemic-this-one>
By *Mark Honigsbaum, **NYR [New York Review of Books] Daily, *posted March
17
*The author is a medical historian and author of *Pandemic Century*
(Norton, 2019).*

*"When 'Fake News' Was Banned: An America Trump Might Have Loved"*
<http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176676>
By *Adam Hochschild, *TomDispatch.com, posted March 17
*On censorship in the US during and immediately after World War I under
President Woodrow Wilson and Postmaster General Albert Burleson. The
author's most recent book is a biography of Rose Pastor Stokes, one of the
dissenters who was imprisoned under the 1917 Espionage Act.*

*"12 Ways the US Invasion of Iraq Lives on in Infamy"*
<https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/17/12-ways-us-invasion-iraq-lives-infamy>
By* Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, *CommonDreams.org, posted
March 17
*Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK; Nicolas
Davies is author of *Blook on Our Hands: The American Invasion and
Destruction of Iraq.

*"As Trump Stumbles in War on Coronavirus at Home, He Bombs Shiites in
Shiite-Ruled Iraq"*
<https://www.juancole.com/2020/03/stumbles-coronavirus-shiites.html>
By* Juan Cole, *Informed Comment blog, posted March 13
*The author teaches Middle Eastern history at the University of Michigan.*

*"I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me"*
<https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-project-new-york-times-mistake-122248>
By* Leslie M. Harris, **Politico, *posted March 6
*A nuanced essay on the 1619 Project controversy, arguing that the
*Times *series
made "avoidable mistakes" but that "the attacks from its critics are much
more dangerous. The author teaches history at Northwestern University and
has written two books on American slavery.*

*Thanks to Rusti Eisenberg and an anonymous reader for suggesting articles
included in the above list. Suggestions can be sent to
jimobrien48 at gmail.com <jimobrien48 at gmail.com>.*
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