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In 2020, Harvard University’s T. C. Chan School of Public Health began a five-year study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that will examine - Lawrence Wittner for Antiwar.com Original

Click through the newly unveiled research archive before seeing MoMA’s ambitious new Calder show. March 12, 2021 Les Masques (1970). Gouache and ink on paper cartoon for Aubusson tapestry. © 2021 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. An ambitious exhibition that tries to get its arms around the breadth of Alexander Calder’s output is opening at the Museum of Modern Art this weekend. That’s no easy task, it turns out.  Just look at the Calder Foundation’...

VIETNAM: THE AMERICAN AGONY IAN SCLANDERS THE WAR IN VIETNAM is one that the ordinary American doesn’t like and didn’t expect. He can’t understand how he got into it — Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all assured him he wouldn’t. He wishes that the United States could manage to get out of it without capitulating completely to the Communists or losing face. That was the impression 1 was left with by what I saw and heard recently in New York and Washington, which, beca...

What Nathan Glazer Can Teach Joe Biden Can the new president remember the answers? One day in the autumn of 1967, the Berkeley sociologist Nathan Glazer visited Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. He was there to debate the community activist Saul Alinsky. The subject was the New Left. Glazer was a well-known critic of the radical politics then making its way through American social, cultural, and educational institutions. But he was no stranger to radicalism itself. A 1944 graduate of the Cit...