Pseudoprophets I was disappointed to find Andrew Bacevich agreeing with Robert Imbelli (“History, Hope, & iPhones,” October 7, 2011) that the American Catholic Church should recover its supposedly lost integrity by taking a resolute stand against...

book for our Occupy Wall Street American world (and speaking of Wall Street, don't miss Steve Fraser's now classic history of The Street, Every Man a Speculator ); anything by Rebecca Solnit , but why not start with A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster ; Andrew Bacevich’s all-too-on-target Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War ; the latest from Frances Fox Piven -- the woman Glenn Beck loves to hate -- Who’s Afraid of Frances Fox Piven? ; the incomparable Noam Chomsky’s updated 9-11: Was There an Alternative? ; and one prophetic older book

By leaving intact and even enlarging the policies that his predecessor had inaugurated, President Barack Obama has handed these militarists an unearned victory. As they drag themselves from one "overseas contingency operation" to the next, American...

Marable, the Columbia University historian who died as his masterpiece was being published, shows that “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” was as much the work of Alex Haley, a liberal Republican, as of Malcolm himself. Washington Rules: America’s Path to...

The professor was not there. The students knew that Bacevich always opposed the war in Iraq. They may have known that his only son, Lt. Andrew J. Bacevich Jr. , was an Army officer there. They did not know that the day before, the younger Bacevich had...

Greenwald called it "surprisingly good," which is right. But one thing about the piece really bothered me--how it dealt with the death of Bacevich's son in Iraq. Reporter Rick Hampson tells that story via the classroom: The students knew that Bacevich...