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Tragedy of a forgotten report

COUNTERFACTUALS — what if so and so had happened? — are always dicey. For example; would there have been a full-scale Vietnam war if President John F Kennedy had not been assassinated? There is no way to prove that hypothesis right or wrong. In the case of today’s Middle East, one could pose the counterfactual question about a forgotten 1919 report about...

Unfurling love from the window

ON APRIL 30, when Columbia University student protesters took over Hamilton Hall, they renamed it ‘Hind’s Hall’, dropping a large banner out the windows above the building’s entrance. This was a hall famously occupied by students in the 1968 protests against the Vietnam War and against Jim Crow racism in the United States...