Howard Lisnoff

Howard Lisnoff is a freelance writer. He is the author of Against the Wall: Memoir of a Vietnam-Era War Resister (2017).

An Incomplete Education

The Vietnam Draft Revisited With Trump’s Class of Ships

Guns and More Guns

From a Small New England Town to the Dictates of Empire

Strategic Hamlets 2.0

A Time of High Ideals

The Rot at the Core of Empire 

An Addiction to Militarism

Environmental Ruin

Impressions of a Local No Kings Rally

“There’s a Man With a Gun Over There…”

Pure Evil

Sexual Assaults in JROTC and the Larger Military

The War Is Over: Reflections on Protest

Columbia University Once a Bellwether of Protest

Trump: Peacemaker?

From Kent State to Pro-Palestinian Protest

A Liberal Veneer

They’re Still Killed by US Munitions

Keep Your Head Down

I’m Very Worried About a Second Trump Administration

Don’t Appear Weak!

Jimmy Carter: Amnesty and Draft Registration

A Little Learning Is Not Such a Dangerous Thing

A Nation of Immigrants

Can You Get Anything You Want? So Long, Alice Brock

It Went So Very Bad: Is There a Way Out?

Gina Raimondo 2.0

It Has Happened Here

We’re in Some Deep Shit

Protest and Conformity

“A Great Man” 

Marching Down to Armageddon

Ruining My Religion

The Uncertain Road of Resistance

Déjà Vu All Over Again

A Conversation With a Columbia University Undergraduate

The Presidential Election Farce

A New Kind of McCarthyism

The Feeding Frenzy of Consumerism and Environmental Destruction

Criticism of Gaza Genocide is off of the Table

Individual Responsibility in War: William Calley, Jr. and the Vietnam War

The Menorah

The Thrill is Gone

War Against Working People: War Against the World

Genocide and War

The SAT and the ACT Are Back with a Vengeance

On the Road of Flight

War, the Opulence of “Maestro,” and Crass Materialism

Moving Inexorably to the Right Amid a History of Change