Vietnam veterans

The Media's Failure on Agent Orange

by Ron Steinman

The media seldom covers the ongoing harm caused by Agent Orange because little of the story is "news." This is a failure of duty to inform the public about the callous use of the defoliant that may allow similar wartime ecological catastrophes in the future. 

Vietnam Veterans Transformed Memorial Day Weekend into a Holiday about Peace

by Elise Lemire

"By the time the law went into effect on Jan. 1, 1971, many returning service members decided to reject not only the commercialization of Memorial Day, but also the holiday’s traditional premise that it was noble to die fighting a war."

The White Men Who Wanted to Be Victims: Joe Darda's "How White Men Won the Culture Wars"

by Chris Lehmann

Joe Darda argues that the convergence of three cultural trends – the turn of the Vietnam veterans' movement away from antiwar politics and toward treating trauma, white ethnic identity politics, and the backlash to civil rights and feminism – birthed a potent strain of white male grievance politics in the 1970s that endures today.