VENEZUELA AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WAR How Conflict Functions as a Career Ladder, Not a Mistake By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA)With Contributing Author Janet Kira Lessin War is rarely the result of collective delusion. Populations are not uniformly fooled, hypnotized, or naïve. They never have been. Vietnam did not persist because everyone …
VIETNAM THROUGH TWO LENSES: POWER, CHILDHOOD, AND THE WAR THAT CAPTURED A GENERATION
VIETNAM THROUGH TWO LENSES: POWER, CHILDHOOD, AND THE WAR THAT CAPTURED A GENERATION What It Looked Like from the Lecture Hall—and from the Dining Room Table By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA)With Contributing Author Janet Kira Lessin Wars do not erupt spontaneously. They are prepared for—psychologically, politically, and mythologically—long before the first bombs fall. …