war
War without end?
The “war on drugs” has been a cornerstone of America’s criminal justice system ever since President Richard Nixon coined the phrase four decades ago. Three recent developments suggest that policy-makers are finally losing faith in its effectiveness.
Frontline PTSD
“You have to understand how desperate a person has to be to seek help, leave, get a gun and go back to kill. It wasn’t on his mind when he went there to take somebody’s life, but something snapped inside of him to where his mental pain became unbearable and he thought that maybe lashing out at people would bring attention to the fact that he was injured.”
The Lost Veterans
Advocacy groups estimate that at least 1,500 veterans from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are sleeping rough in America’s cities. Have the lessons of Vietnam been learned?
War (Not Peace)
This report was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Open Book, in October 2007.
When two competing versions of War & Peace were released within months of each other, a rather undignified spat broke out between the publishers.
In conversation with Mariella Frostrup, I described the key differences between the two books and attempted to explain [...]
Where did all the protest songs go?
One day Christina Aguilera will release a cover of Dylan’s Masters Of War, Justin Timberlake will perform I Ain’t Marching Anymore on primetime television and millions of average Americans will descend on the White House, demanding an end to the bloodshed.
