Lies My Teacher Told Me

claim specifically for the World Trade Center: The Twin Towers were meant to symbolize peace. Shortly after they were finished i ...

a Pentagon report that pointed out “Muslims do not ‘hate our freedom,’ but rather they hate our policies.” If we took this sente ...

precisely to deny the Vietnamese the ability “to govern themselves.” Such “analysis” makes it hard to understand why anyone woul ...

Presenting a nation without sin—one that has always conducted its Middle Eastern policies evenhandedly and with best intentions ...

Even more important to understanding 9/11 were our actions in Iran. Chapter 8 tells of our repeated interventions on behalf of t ...

attack important symbols of American culture.’” The CIA did not even relay that warning to airline companies. Agents within the ...

power these extremists sheltered Osama bin Laden and his training camps that produced the terrorists who attacked the World Trad ...

The United States seems to go to war ever more easily, partly because most of us do not really know war’s human costs. Our ignor ...

guarding truck convoys, have been contracted out to private companies, whose losses are omitted from official statistics. Iraqi ...

destruction. Clearly we attacked Iraq not because it had WMD but because it did not. President Bush’s third stated reason for at ...

to receive $150,000 a year in deferred compensation from Halliburton and has stock options worth more than $18 million in it. Co ...

war, which shows the truth of Herman Goering’s statement that to get people to back a war, “all you have to do is tell them that ...

Iraq, President Bush dared Muslim extremists to “attack us there. My answer is, bring them on.”^38 The extremists responded. Al ...

Iraq hardly exports any oil and suffers shortages of its own, so the war has hardly helped the world cope with its energy shortf ...

imposing personalities on their title pages, the books’ final chapters seem especially devoid of a point of view. I suspect this ...

nations such as Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea with growing capabilities to make nuclear bombs. That world is marked by growing ...

11. PROGRESS IS OUR MOST IMPORTANT PRODUCT God has not been preparing the English speaking and Teutonic peoples for a thousand y ...

serious to be left to the economists. —E. J. MISHAN^3 It is becoming increasingly apparent that we shall not have the benefits o ...

vapid cheer. “The American spirit surged with vitality as the nation headed toward the close of the twentieth century,” the auth ...

According to American History, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way has been reproduced in more American histories than a ...