When Things Fall Apart : Throughline Climate change, political unrest, random violence - Western society can often feel like what the filmmaker Werner Herzog calls, "a thin layer of ice on top of an ocean of chaos and darkness." To access bonus episodes and listen to Throughline sponsor-free, subscribe to Throughline+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/throughline. Throughline When Things …
All Wars Are Fought Twice Enlarge this image toggle caption Nik Wheeler/CORBIS Nik Wheeler/CORBIS "All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen. A refugee from the Vietnam War, Nguyen calls himself a scholar of memory — someone who studies how we remember events of the …
All Wars Are Fought Twice Enlarge this image toggle caption Nik Wheeler/Corbis Nik Wheeler/Corbis "All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen. A refugee from the Vietnam War, Nguyen calls himself a scholar of memory — someone who studies how we remember events of the …
