Steps on the Columbia University campus, 2020. (Alexi Rosenfeld / Getty Images) The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the glaring contradictions in American higher education. State research universities ...
The Afghanistan War Was Founded on Lies. Some People Are Still Telling Them. As the Taliban takes over the country, hawkish pundits and ex-officials in America are still clinging to the long-broken ...
Dalibor Rohac responds to Daniel Bessner’s essay for the July 2022 edition of Harper’s Magazine “Empire Burlesque: What comes after the American Century?“: While Bessner does an adequate job of ...
Daniel Bessner has written a very interesting review of Samantha Power’s memoir, The Education of an Idealist. Here he focuses on her narrow thinking about “humanitarian” intervention: If you accept ...
A special edition of American Prestige. Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Daniel Bessner Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, featuring the writers, ...
Recently, the historians Daniel Bessner and Michael Brenes responded to the jobs crisis in the humanities generally — and in history specifically — with a polemical call for professional organizations ...
Daniel Bessner, author and professor of American foreign policy at the University of Washington, sits down with web editor Violet Lucca to discuss his Harper’s Magazine cover story about the future of ...
Daniel Bessner is a Professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and former foreign policy advisor to Bernie Sanders' 2020 Presidential campaign.