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Mintpress News
March 26, 2018
Consider, for example, this article defending the displacement of poor blacks following Hurricane Katrina, in which the writer's decision to profile a vacationing ... The New Yorker's Russiagate story, however, is cynical, even arrogant, in its insistence that the journalist knows better than the rest of us, if onlyÃâà...
The New Arab
March 20, 2018
In one of the more thoughtful reflections on the Second World War, the late writer Lee Sandlin noted how collective memory of the war's inanities and ... roots of the lawlessness and sectarian strife that would engulf Iraq for years, the first inklings of which were discussed by Mark Danner way back in 2003.
KALW
March 20, 2018
Listen. Listening... /. 52:24. On the August 5th edition of Your Call, it's our Friday media roundtable. This week, we'll have a conversation with veteran journalist Mark Danner about his new book Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War. ̩̉ 2018 KALW.
UC Berkeley
February 28, 2018
The consequences — particularly American tolerance of perpetual war in the name of security — inspired UC Berkeley journalism and English professor Mark Danner's latest book, Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War. A former staff writer for The New Yorker and frequent contributor to The New York ReviewÃâà...
Berkeleyside
February 2, 2018
She's weathered what she calls “writer's blockade” for years. If you scramble, you could catch Friday night's discussion on ... (If you wanted to see Leibowitz with Mark Danner on politics and money, on Saturday night, it's sold out.) Friday, February 2, 8 p.m., Sunday, February 4, 2 p.m., Berkeley Rep, 2025Ãâà...
SFGate
January 30, 2018
3, she'll talk politics and money with Mark Danner, a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism and a former New Yorker staff writer. The series wraps up Sunday, Feb. 4, with “On Nostalgia,” which will include forays into Lebowitz's association with Andy Warhol. Berkeley Art Museum and PacificÃâà...
SFGate
January 30, 2018
3, she'll talk politics and money with Mark Danner, a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism and a former New Yorker staff writer. The series wraps up Sunday, Feb. 4, with “On Nostalgia,” which will include forays into Lebowitz's association with Andy Warhol. Berkeley Art Museum and PacificÃâà...
UCI News
January 24, 2018
Keynote speaker Jill Lepore, author of The Secret History of Wonder Woman, and panels comprising thinkers and visionaries from America and all over the ... 5:30 p.m. Panel: “These Truths: Identity & the Founding Documents,” featuring Jill Lepore; Princeton historian Sean Wilentz; writer Mark Danner; andÃâà...
Broadway World
January 11, 2018
Mark Danner is a writer and reporter who for three decades has written on politics and foreign affairs, focusing on war and conflict. He has covered Central ... Daniel Handler is the author of six novels, including Why We Broke Up, We Are Pirates, and, most recently, All The Dirty Parts. As Lemony Snicket, heÃâà...
New York Times
April 6, 2017
Very methodically: alphabetically by author; first fiction, then nonfiction, then plays, screenplays, music, film, history, biography — then whatever shelf has room. What's the best book you've ever received as a gift? I once mentioned to some sports journalist friends that as a kid I loved an out-of-print libraryÃâà...
lareviewofbooks
January 24, 2017
In Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War, Mark Danner delivers eloquent and brutally direct assessments of both Bush and Obama when it comes to their ... The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times Magazine, and is the author of Torture and Truth and Stripping Bare the Body.
Vox
January 6, 2017
We're fighting what Mark Danner, author of Spiral, calls a “forever war.” Fifteen years into the “war on terror,” we appear no closer to ending it than when we started. Worse, it's not even clear what “ending it” would look like. We're battling a constellation of ideas, not a conventional army, and there are noÃâà...
New Republic
August 23, 2016
This persistent ignorance is the theme of Mark Danner's new book, Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War. An acclaimed ... Unlike other recent books on the subject—by New York Times investigative journalist Charlie Savage and New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright—Spiral offers few new facts. But all threeÃâà...
New York Times
June 24, 2016
But in his disturbing new book, “Spiral,” Mark Danner worries there is no way out of today's “forever war,” which continues unabated after 15 years. ... A journalist who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, Danner sounds the alarm in hectic prose, relying on a somewhat hazy concept of the war onÃâà...
SFGate
June 12, 2016
Few will be tougher on the president — or, for that matter, his predecessor — than Mark Danner's “Spiral.” Distilling a set of arguments he's been making for almost 15 ... And given the author's credentials, it's worthy of serious consideration. Danner, a UC Berkeley professor, covered the war in Iraq, and hisÃâà...
The New York Review of Books
December 30, 2014
New York Review contributor Mark Danner has been writing about the use of torture by the US government since the first years after September 11. .... And he also was a main author of the 2001 Memorandum of Notification to the president which gave the CIA broad power to do this—even though itÃâà...
Stanford University News
April 15, 2010
So says journalist Mark Danner, who spoke Wednesday night as part of Stanford's annual Tanner Lectures. He argued that our government is in an endless "state of exception," an altered state of government in which torture is legal. Danner, who has written extensively about American foreign policy, tortureÃâà...
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