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James C. Thomson

Recollections of a Cultural Imperialist

Magazine August 1971

"All of us have been the tools of American cultural aggression, perhaps without being wholly conscious of it." —Y. T. Wu, Chinese Christian leader, July, 1951 … More »

How Could Vietnam Happen? An Autopsy

Magazine April 1968

From the beginning of John Kennedy's Administration into this fifth year of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, substantially the same small group of men have presided over the destiny of the United States. In that time they have carried the country from a limited involvement in Vietnam into a war that is brutal, probably unwinnable, and, to an increasing body of opinion, calamitous and immoral. How could it happen? Many in government or close to it will read the…… More »

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A 150th-anniversary commemorative issue, with Atlantic work by Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and others. Read more ›

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