Archive for August, 2010

Make sure you’ve had your tetanus shot, and other important things I learned as an archives intern

For six weeks this summer, I worked as an intern in the archives department of the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History in downtown Kennesaw, Georgia. When I told people this, they undoubtedly replied, “The museum with The General, right? I went there all the time as a kid!” Yes, it is the [...]

More on the unsolvable morality of the atomic bomb

With the recent anniversaries of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there has been the inevitable stirring and rehashing of old debates. August 6 and August 9 (incidentally, the birthdays of my brothers Neil and Carl, respectively) marked military action of unprecedented extremity, and it is estimated that hundreds of thousands [...]

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