Plus: Malcolm Cowley; All Creatures Great and Small; Wartime Adoptions; Medicaid; Remember the Maine
| Today in The New York Review of Books: Stuart Schrader asks why local police have been supporting ICE; Brenda Wineapple exhumes Malcolm Cowley; Ian Tattersall gives names to all the animals; Oscar Lopez tells the history of the tens of thousands of children spirited out of Guatemala and El Salvador since the 1980s; Adam Gaffney analyzes the effect of cuts to Medicaid; a poem by Mary Jo Salter; and, from the archives, Theodore H. Draper on the Spanish–American War. To some cops and the unions that represent them, the federal invasions of American cities are a chance to undercut the already fraying democratic constraints on police power. Although his own writings are little known today, Malcolm Cowley became one of the great champions of American literature. The quest to fathom the riotous diversity of nature is absorbingly told in a virtual double biography of the great taxonomist Carl Linnaeus and his contemporary, the count of Buffon. As Guatemala and El Salvador were being torn apart by violent US-backed regimes, tens of thousands of children—many of them war orphans, others forcibly taken from their birth parents—were being adopted overseas. By making Medicaid distinguish still more sharply between the “deserving” and “undeserving” poor, the Trump administration is exacerbating a problem built into the program’s foundation. Free from the ArchivesOne hundred and twenty-eight years ago today the USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana Harbor, Cuba, killing 261 crew members and stoking tensions between the United States and Spain, which broke out into the Spanish–American War two months later. In the Review’s March 18, 1999, issue, Theodore H. Draper wrote about this “misnamed” war in which “there were four, not two, sides”: It was not merely a Spanish-American war; it was also a Spanish-Cuban-American war and a Spanish-Philippine-American war. To leave out Cuba and the Philippines from the name of the war is to leave out the Cubans and Filipinos who were fighting Spain before the United States entered the war and without whom the United States would not have scored such an easy victory.
“In its own time, the ‘Spanish-American War’ was inflated to make Americans proud and imperial-minded. Since then, US historians have deflated it, and some have treated it with derision and contempt. Yet it marked a turning point in American history, because it gave the United States the first illusion of being a World Power, a status that did not come to fruition until after World War II.” New Subscriber Benefit!Subscribers are now able to share unlocked versions of our articles with friends, family, and social media channels. When signed in to your account, look for this gift box icon in any of our articles. President Trump’s reversal of a ban on sales of advanced semiconductors to China undercut the strategic logic behind years of American policy that was meant to keep the US ahead in the race to develop AI systems. Asad Haider, the foremost socialist thinker of his generation, staked his philosophy on the principle that everyone should be fundamentally free. You are receiving this message because you signed up
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