Areo magazine has published another essay of mine, Bravado in the Absence of Order, which examines why African-American urban communities have such high rates of homicide and other violence. The essay uses medieval history, and contemporary societies other than the US, to illuminate social patterns that are less clear if one just looks at the US in isolation.
This Day In Iraqi History - Jul 14 Gen Qasim and Col Arif overthrew the
monarchy in a coup
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1915 US consulate report Worried that sectarian war might start with
Shiites turning on
Sunni Ottomans due to troubles in Karbala and Najaf
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