Author: TheConversation

By Marcus Hedahl, Associate Professor of Philosophy, United States Naval Academy; and Bradley Jay Strawser, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Naval Postgraduate School President Donald Trump has announced he was considering sending the federal military into the streets of numerous American cities – above and beyond those sent to Washington DC – in an effort to control the protests and violence that have emerged in the wake of the May 25 killing of George Floyd. He has since ordered the military to be withdrawn from the capital, but has not ruled out the possibility of using troops in similar situations...

By Arash Javanbakht, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University Tribalism has become a signature of America within and without since the election of President Trump. The nation has parted ways with international allies, left the rest of the world in their effort to fight the climate change, and most recently the pandemic, by leaving the World Health Organization. Even the pandemic was not a serious issue of importance to our leaders. We did not care much about what was happening in the rest of the world, as opposed to the time of previous pandemics when we were on...

By Elizabeth J. West, Professor of English, Georgia State University Though we often discuss World War I through the lens of history, we occasionally do it through literature. But almost never involving African-American literature. Discussions about literary influences from that era invariably go to the famous trilogy of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald – the authors most representative of America’s iconic Lost Generation. Their work is said to reflect a mood that emerged from the ashes of a war that, with its trail of carnage, left survivors around the world with a despairing vision of life, self and nation. The...