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Nov 29, 2022

#ChrisRereads, Day Two: The Case for Cancel Culture

#ChrisRereads, Day Two: The Case for Cancel Culture I was excited when I first heard of this book by Ernest Owens, an acclaimed Philly writer and leader in PABJ (the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists). The image above doesn’t show its subtitle: “How This Democratic Tool Works to Liberate Us…

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#ChrisRereads, Day Two: The Case for Cancel Culture
#ChrisRereads, Day Two: The Case for Cancel Culture
Books

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Nov 28, 2022

Chris Re-Reads: A new series

I’m a fast reader, always have been; in third grade I raced a classmate to be the first to finish H.G. Wells’ Journey to the Center of the Earth. I was also learning to skim, of course. These days, I find myself now surrounded by books I’d meant to review…

Chris Re Reads

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Chris Re-Reads: A new series
Chris Re-Reads: A new series
Chris Re Reads

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I Ain’t Marching Anymore

·Jun 20, 2022

The U.S. Military and White Supremacy: A History

I wrote the piece below for ON WATCH, the quarterly magazine of the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild. When I was asked to write it, I was a little stunned: “All of it?” It took weeks to write. I hope it’s useful. Above is the song…

Military

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Military

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Feb 27, 2022

As Russia Invades Ukraine, Let’s Follow Our Best Instincts, Not Our Worst

By Chris Lombardi Over the past few weeks, with clouds of a Russian invasion of Ukraine gathering on the horizon, thw world’s anti-war organizations settled firmly in their ongoing positions; World Beyond War and Code Pink warned against overreach by the North American Treaty Organization (NATO); . Common Defense exulted…

Ukraine

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As Russia Invades Ukraine, Let’s Follow Our Best Instincts, Not Our Worst
As Russia Invades Ukraine, Let’s Follow Our Best Instincts, Not Our Worst
Ukraine

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Feb 3, 2022

“Make the treaty, Sir! . . . I know your country. I know all classes of people there. They want peace, Sir. They pant for it.”

As anniversaries go, February 2 is an equivocal one for American and Mexican history: That date in 1848 was when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, ending the U.S. Mexico War and extending the boundaries of the United States west to the Pacific Ocean. As the Howard Zinn Education…

Mexican American War

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“Make the treaty, Sir!
“Make the treaty, Sir!
Mexican American War

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I Ain’t Marching Anymore

·Jan 3, 2022

Conscientious objection is the thing with feathers.

One of the very last things I accomplished in 2021 was draft a conclusion to that chapter I’ve been co-authoring for the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Peace History. It’s on what first drew me to my book’s topic, and what some people think Ain’t Marching is about: that knotty concept…

Chris Lombardi

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Conscientious objection is the thing with feathers.
Conscientious objection is the thing with feathers.
Chris Lombardi

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Dec 6, 2021

Reality Winner Comes Out As a Soldier-Dissenter

Last night’s 60 Minutes segment hit all the notes: Winner’s service, her awards, even her moral injury; “ I was starting to see in the news that our mission had a very high civilian casualty rating,” she told Scott Pelley. Winner was honest about what imprisonment did to her and…

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Reality Winner Comes Out As a Soldier-Dissenter
Reality Winner Comes Out As a Soldier-Dissenter
60 Minutes

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I Ain’t Marching Anymore

·Oct 25, 2021

On Colin Powell

I never expected to start my week writing about Colin Powell. I know he meant a lot to a lot of people I respect, which might make the week to come nearly unbearable. It also makes the option of saying nothing feel like cowardice. Powell’s name appears three times in…

Colin Powell

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On Colin Powell
On Colin Powell
Colin Powell

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Jul 12, 2021

Fragments toward an elegy

My book is dedicated to him: To Ben Lombardi, who learned in the navy that books open up the world. Wish you had lived to see this one in print. He nearly did; we were in pre-production edits on July 12, 2019, the day he took his last breath at…

Eulogy

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Fragments toward an elegy
Fragments toward an elegy
Eulogy

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May 15, 2021

“The delicacy and fragility of life hit me”: Kyle Toon’s Journey to Conscientious Objection | Center on Conscience & War

When Kyle Toon first thought about joining the Army, it felt like morning. In 2009. he was about to graduate from high school in Virginia. The new Obama administration was just getting started, and was promising to do right by the country of Afghanistan. Toon knew his scores on the…

Kyle Toon

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“The delicacy and fragility of life hit me”: Kyle Toon’s Journey to Conscientious Objection |…
“The delicacy and fragility of life hit me”: Kyle Toon’s Journey to Conscientious Objection |…
Kyle Toon

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Chris Lombardi

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Incorrigible writer: books at Mumblers Press (2022) and New Press (2020).

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