Tag: Imperialism
The Fight Over Berlin’s Comfort Woman Statue
The British Empire’s Worldwide Devastation
In 2005, Britain’s then–Labour prime minister, Gordon Brown, chose the backdrop of Tanzania to make a dramatic statement about his nation’s unmatched record of imperial conquest and rule. “The time is long gone,” he said, “when Britain needs to apologize for its colonial history.” The choice of locale for such a proclamation was, to be charitable, curious. A braver stage would have been Kenya, to
The Son of Ferdinand Marcos May Be Hours From Returning the Family to Power
The Surprising History of the Comic Book
An informational booklet, circa 1948. (Jim Heimann Collection / Getty Images)
Blame the comic book. Cheap and transportable, a trove of infantile fantasy and psychosexual Pop Art, often spiced with egregious stereotypes and nativist aggression, this humble medium was for a time the United States’ most ubiquitous cultural ambassador. Such is the thesis of Paul S. Hirsch’s Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism, an engaging account of the ways in which comics variously served or confounded
‘Foundation’ Has an Imperialism Problem
This article contains spoilers through the first season of Foundation.
Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series is perhaps the definitive expression of mid-century American liberalism. Certainly nothing from the academy can approach its popular influence. When David S. Goyer—the mastermind behind Apple’s extravagant TV adaptation, which wraps up its first season today—declared Foundation “the greatest science-fiction work ever written,” he was not indulging in prerelease hyperbole so much as reciting the official record. The Hugo Awards voted Foundation as the field’s
Guam: Resisting Empire at the “Tip of the Spear”
What if City Governments Paid Reparations?
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