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Gordon H. Chang

Gordon H. Chang  is professor of history and Olive H. Palmer Professor of Humanities at Stanford University.

Our Fifth Extreme Isolation

Our Fifth Extreme Isolation

Why we’re thankful that we’re all here to shelter in place

by Gordon H. Chang | Friday, April 17, 2020
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A Tale of War and Forgetting

by Neil Shea

In honor of Memorial Day this Monday, we’re revisiting this powerful essay from contributing editor Neil Shea, written just after the centennial of the First World War. Shea reflects on the war through the lens of Impressionist painting— viewed up close, he writes, “there is bravery and blindness, splinters of bone and steel, mud, horror, cacophony.” As time goes on, however, we risk seeing the war “as a vague event portrayed in colors that seem almost quaint.”