Robert Jay Lifton

Robert Jay Lifton is the author of Superpower Syndrome: America's
Apocalyptic Confrontation With the World and Home From the War:
Learning From Vietnam Veterans, recently reissued in paperback with
a new preface on Iraq. He is also an editor of Crimes of War: Iraq, forthcoming from Nation Books.

Articles

A War Over Meaning (Social Justice, US Wars and Military Action, Peace Activism)

Knowing what America owes its dead--be they soldiers lost in
Iraq or civilians lost in the Gulf Coast storm--could prod the nation toward a decisive rejection of the Bush Administration's war policies.

Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchell

Conditions of Atrocity (Iraqi Reconstruction and Occupation, Jails and Prisons, US Wars and Military Action, Society)

Even before the Congressional hearings on the criminal abuse of Iraqi
detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, Colin Powell brought up My Lai, the
Vietnamese village where, in 1968, American troops slau

Robert Jay Lifton

Letters

AMERICAN HUBRIS AND HISTORY

Brunswick, Me.

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American Apocalypse (America as Empire, Terrorism Targeting the US, War on Terrorism)

How "superpower syndrome" is ravaging the world.

Robert Jay Lifton