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Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War

Mark Danner has written about foreign affairs and American politics for more than two decades, covering Latin America, Haiti, the Balkans and the Middle East among other stories. He was for many years a staff writer at The New Yorker and contributes frequently to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine and other publications. He teaches at the University of California and at Bard College and speaks and debates widely about America's role in the world.

 

Articles

After September 11: Our State of Exception
The New York Review of Books     |     Published: 09/11/11
We are living in the State of Exception. We don’t know when it will end, as we don’t know when the War on Terror will end. But we all know when it began.

Torture: Once anathema, now a choice
New York     |     Published: 08/27/11
In the weeks after 9/11, Americans began torturing prisoners. At first, spurred on by fear, panic, guilt, and desperation, they improvised—stripping a wounded John Walker Lindh, the so-called American Taliban, taping him naked to a stretcher and leaving him bleeding and untreated for days in a freezing shipping container.

To Heal Haiti, Look to History, Not Nature
The New York Times     |     Published: 01/21/10
Recovery can come only with vital, even heroic, outside help; but such help will do little to restore Haiti unless it addresses the manmade causes that lie beneath the Haitian malady.

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Webcasts

Ojaj Festival 2011- Music in the Time of War Symposium
VIDEO     |    06/10/11
Deeply passionate about music, politics and theater Peter Sellars and award-winning journalist/author Mark Danner discuss how “ the moral concerns of the U.S. as a polity and a great power and how these, must stem, or should stem, ultimately from a grounding in the humanities.”

On Libya and the Arab Spring: Human Rights, Democracy and National Interest
AUDIO     |    04/01/11

Mark Danner speaks at Authors@Google
VIDEO     |    03/11/10
Mark Danner visits the Googleplex to discuss his book, Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War, as well as torture and where we are when it comes to extreme interrogation with the Obama Administration: why we haven't escaped Bush's "state of exception."

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