Part 1. What Is A War Crime?
Guest: Rebecca Gordon, teaches at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of Mainstreaming Torture, American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes and is currently working on a new book about the history of torture in the United States called The House That Torture Built. She is a regular contributor to TomDispatch.com.
Part 2. How We Remember Wars
Elizabeth D. Samet is the author of No Man’s Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America; Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point; Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776–1898; and her latest, Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness. She is a professor of English at West Point.