Mark Danner

Why Is Haiti Poor? Politics, Disaster and the Predatory State

Mark Danner — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:21:31 -0800

Mark Danner discusses the disastrous earthquake in Haiti, showing how its devastating consequences are rooted in the country's turbulent history and predatory government.

Looking Back on the Age of Genocide

Mark Danner — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:19:25 -0800

Mark Danner reflects on what we can learn from the genocides of the late 1990s. With Bridget Conley-Zilkic of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for the Voices on Genocide Prevention podcast.

Media Roundtable: State of the Union, Haiti and the London Summit

Mark Danner — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:14:15 -0800

Mark Danner, Nancy Youssef and Charles Homans discuss President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address, Haiti in the earthquake's aftermath and the London Summit about negotiations with the Taliban. On KALW's Your Call Media Roundtable.

Looking Back on the Age of Genocide

Mark Danner — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:22:00 -0800

Stripping Bare the Body (Australian edition)

Mark Danner — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:02:27 -0800

Stripping Bare the Body shows at close hand how terrorism works and how war looks and smells and feels. Drawing on rich narratives of politics and violence and war from around the world,Stripping Bare the Body is a moral history of American power during the last quarter-century, as told by one of the world’s leading writers.

A newly installed Haitian president told Mark Danner in riot-torn Port-au-Prince, “Violence strips bare a society’s body, the better to place the stethoscope and track the life beneath the skin.” This stark truth came to haunt Danner, especially after the president was overthrown in a bloody coup d’état.

Stripping Bare the Body moves from mass murder on election day in Port-au-Prince, to massacre by mortar bomb on the streets of Sarajevo, to suicide bombings in the suburbs of Baghdad, to torture in the secret “black site” prisons of Thailand and Afghanistan, to political deal-making, personal rivalries and bureaucratic in-fighting in Washington and New York and Langley. Here is the vivid, unforgettable history of what Mark Danner calls a “grim age, still infused with the remnant perfume of imperial dreams.”

Mark Danner speaking with Enrique Cerna on "Conversations at KCTS 9"

Mark Danner — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:24:47 -0800

Mark Danner in an interview with Enrique Cerna on Conversations at KCTS 9, speaking about torture, democracy and empire, true democracy, the future of peace and his book Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War.

Haiti's Earthquake and its Aftermath

Mark Danner — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:02:04 -0800

Mark Danner and Congresswoman Maxine Waters on GRITtv with Laura Flanders, discussing Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake.

To Heal Haiti, Look to History, Not Nature

Mark Danner — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:39:20 -0800

Constructing Myths of America with Mark Danner

Mark Danner — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:39:47 -0800

Mark Danner joins Laura Flanders in the studio on GRITtv to discuss his book, Stripping Bare the Body, and hopes and fears for the U.S. under Obama.

Best American Political Writing 2009

Mark Danner — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:41:05 -0800