John Tirman is executive director of the MIT Center for International Studies. His latest book, The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America’s Wars, will be published by Oxford University Press in July.
Throughout his life and work, Howard Zinn was fashioning a living concept of what it means to be a good citizen.
It is now ten years since the Berlin wall crumbled, but the question of how and why the cold war was concluded still lingers.