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A dream of war
by Martin J. Dockery '60
In 1962, the author, a young American Army officer, served as a military advisor in a small civil conflict in Southeast Asia
Bard of brokenness
by Tim Heffernan
Craig Finn ’93, of the Hold Steady, writes and sings rock-and-roll dime novels of pain and redemption at the junction of suburbia and the demimonde. He’s being described as the new Springsteen. He’s a happy man
The long march
In 1965 Congress enacted a revolutionary voting rights act. Do we still need it?
Playland
Photographs by Gary Wayne Gilbert
BC's new practice rooms are filled with the sounds of music day and night
Staying here
by Cara Feinberg
Should a 29-year-old petty criminal and recovering addict be deported to a country she fled as a child?
City lights
by Thomas H. O'Connor
Before there were blue states and red states, there was Boston's way of thinking and the South's
Nine on nine
by Akhil Reed Amar, Jack Landman Goldsmith, David Greenberg, Marci Hamilton, Renee M. Landers JD'85, Anthony Lewis, Dahlia Lithwick, Mary-Rose Papandrea, Judge Richard A. Posner
Conversations on justice, power, and the U.S. Supreme Court
Blowback
by John Agresto '67
For nine months in the formative post-invasion period, the author served in Iraq, a high-level civilian assigned to help the country rebuild. He had the best of intentions
Public defender
by Jane Whitehead
Dr. Philip Landrigan '63 has taken on lead, pesticides, and Twin Towers dust. Now he takes aim at all the avoidable illnesses of childhood
