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Historical Topics, Op-ed

Why We Should Care About Southeast Asians’ Reactions to the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Part 2

Tim Esau Please be advised that this essay contains artistic depictions of sexual violence and atrocity. When I first conceived of this article, I believed that while the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki may have been justified by the lives they saved in Southeast Asia. Yet after the esteemed pProfessor Toshihiro Higuchi reviewed my equivocation-heavy first draft, he recommended a monograph titled Bombing Civilians that … Continue reading Why We Should Care About Southeast Asians’ Reactions to the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Part 2

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Historical Topics, Op-ed

Why We Should Care About Southeast Asians’ Reactions to the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Part 1

Tim Esau Historians have long shirked moral judgements in their studies, favoring epistemological conservatism. Many fear the unavoidable presentism of moral judgements, thereby appealing to moral subjectivism. Thus, historians dread the damage done to “objective history” by bias or personal preference. One does not need to be an academic to recognize the contemporary preference towards epistemological conservatism which arose after the existential debates over objectivism … Continue reading Why We Should Care About Southeast Asians’ Reactions to the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Part 1

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