Spencer Lee-Lenfield Mysterious Displays of Will Nadine Hwang—a queer Chinese lawyer who joined the army, circulated in Paris salons, and survived Ravensbrück—never wrote a memoir, but her life itself became a work of art. January 4, 2023
Peter E. Gordon Why Historical Analogy Matters A past that is utterly different is more than merely past; it has no claim on my knowledge and it might as well blink out of existence altogether. This is more than merely a matter of logic; it has political consequences. January 7, 2020
Omer Bartov On Holocaust Analogies The Museum’s decision to completely reject drawing any possible analogies to the Holocaust, or to the events leading up to it, is fundamentally ahistorical. It makes learning from the past almost impossible. July 1, 2019
Andrea Pitzer America’s Concentration Camp System A process of normalization, when a bad camp becomes much more dangerous, is not unusual. Today’s border camps are a crueler reflection of long-term policies. June 21, 2019