Gary Leupp

Gary Leupp is Emeritus Professor of History at Tufts University, and is the author of Servants, Shophands and Laborers in in the Cities of Tokugawa JapanMale Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan; and Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900 and coeditor of The Tokugawa World (Routledge, 2021). He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion, (AK Press). He can be reached at: gleupp@tufts.edu

Proposed Text for an Effective Anti-Hillary TV Ad

Is a “Socialist” Really Unelectable? The Potential Significance of the Sanders Campaign

Some Thoughts on Donald Trump and Second Corinthians

NATO: Seeking Russia’s Destruction Since 1949

The Basics of Islamist Terrorist Ideology

Ben Carson, Joseph in Egypt, and the Attack on Rational Thought

Fishing in Troubled Waters: the U.S. “Pushback” Against China’s Claims in the South China Sea

Why Hillary Won the Debate (Even Though She Didn’t)

A Brief History of U.S. Gun Worship

The Six Most Disastrous Interventions of the 21st Century

A Useful Prep-Sheet on Syria for Media Propagandists

The Death of the “Pacifist” Constitution: Japan’s Return to Its Martial Roots

“Counterproductive” Russia and the Conflict in Syria

How George W. Bush Destroyed the Temple of Baal

ISIL Advances While Its Foes Cannot Unite

Why Donald Trump is So Scary

Optimism on the Iran Deal, Whichever Way Congress Decides

Talking Points on the Iran Nuke Deal

The US is Now Confronted by the Same Sectarian Strife in the Middle East That It Fostered

The Big Winners in the “Muhammad Art Exhibit”

The U.S. Encouragement of Fanatic Islamism in the Arab World

Ukraine: The Truth

Blaming Iran for Shi’ite Unrest Throughout the Middle East

The Senselessness of Joining in a Sunni vs. Shiite War

On Obama’s Insistence that “We Are Not at War with Islam”

The Warmongering Record of Hillary Clinton

A Chronology of the Sony Hacking Incident

The Myth of Abraham and America’s Allegiance to Israel

Paul Wolfowitz and the Senate Torture Report

Hagel’s Dismissal

A Brief History of Jerusalem

Profiting from Christian Credulity

Hagel’s Syria Memo

The Gloating of the Neocons

The U.S. Versus ISIS

ISIS and Washington’s Ignorance About the Sunni-Shia Divide

The Cuomo-Lavelle “Debate” About Ukraine

Random Thoughts on My Ukrainian Heritage

The Dick Cheney Problem

Two Occupations Ending in Hopeless Disasters

The Fundamental Lie of the Afghan War

AP Blasts “Russian Propaganda War” Over Ukraine

Ukraine: The Sovereignty Argument, and the Real Problem of Fascism

The Intelligence Apparatus Is Checking Out Your “Intimate Body Parts”

Where Did White People Come From?

Phil Robertson, St. Paul and the Problem of Christian Homophobia

Chemical Weapons: a Quiz

The Weiner Affair, Phase Two

The Long War in Syria

A Necessary Third Open Letter to Melissa Harris-Perry