Jan 15
Top 5 constitutional controversies from this week [VIDEO]
Judging by the rapid succession of “Constitution” Google Alert emails I’ve been getting the past few days, it’s been a really good week for my favorite founding document—or, depending on how you look at it, a really bad week.
May 16
OF PHOTOJOURNALISM, BIN LADEN, AND THE “RIGHT TO SEE”
A few days ago, the journalist Sebastian Junger visited West Point, where I am on the history faculty. He was there to show Restrepo, his documentary film about a U.S. Army combat team deployed on a dangerous assignment in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan, and then do an on-stage interview with me in front of… [Continue Reading]
May 5
THE MAN WHO DESIGNED AND SUPERVISED THE BIN LADEN RAID
The operation that killed Osama Bin Laden was carried out by an elite unit of the Navy SEALs and it is highly unlikely that we will ever learn the names of those who entered the compound, much less the SEAL who pulled the trigger twice to shoot Bin Laden dead. But we do know quite… [Continue Reading]
May 3
Five Questions to Ask About the Killing of Bin Laden
1. Why not capture him? In fact, the administration says the plan was to capture Bin Laden if he did not offer any resistance, though officials considered it unlikely that he would give himself up. Still, the question is tantalizing: if he had not offered resistance and the Seals had taken him alive and brought… [Continue Reading]
