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Was the atomic bombing of Japan necessary?
The atomic bombing of Japan at the end of World War II is often called one of the great crimes of the last century. Many people treat it as an…
This category collects older pieces of mine, writing from earlier years that I have brought forward because it still holds up or still says something I believe. Think of it as an archive, the work that predates much of what I do now but earned its place.
Some of these were written a long time ago, in a different phase of my life, with the voice and concerns I had at the time. I have kept them largely as they were, because there is honesty in letting old work stand rather than constantly polishing the past into something it never was.
If you want to see how my thinking has developed, these older articles are part of the record. The throughline from then to now is clearer than you might expect.