Week of January 8

• War
  The Slaying of Qassem Soleimani

  Hussein Banai
  Saying No to a Stupid War

  Jeremy Varon

  Professor of History, New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College.
  Understanding Kashmir’s Crisis

  Shubh Mathur

  Independent researcher
• Politics
  A Vote for Sanders is a Vote to Restore the Commonwealth

  Bernard Avishai

  Visiting professor of government, Dartmouth College
  Reparations, Atonement, or Both

  Troy Mosley

  Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and 20-year veteran with combat experience.
  Fonda’s Firedrill Fridays

  Jo Freeman

  Published eleven books and hundreds of articles. She is currently finishing a history and memoir of working for SCLC in 1965-66.
• Culture
  What We Learned in Pine Valley

  Elana Levine

  Elana Levine is professor of media, cinema, and digital studies in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
  How Disney has Turned the Film Industry Into a Small World, After All

  Jake Pitre

  PhD candidate, Concordia University in Montreal
  The Scholarly Reach of Popular History

  L.D. Burnett

  L.D. Burnett is Professor of History, Collin College