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Daniel Akst

Daniel Akst
A native New Yorker, Daniel Akst is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Slate and other leading publications. He has written scores of book reviews over the years and was a board member of the National Book Critics Circle. He has been a Koret Fellow at the University of California (Berkeley) Graduate School of Journalism, a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC, and a public policy fellow at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.


How World War II Pacifists Laid the Foundation for Future Struggles

Daniel Akst on the Unconventional Origins of the Modern Antiwar Movement
December 21, 2022  By Daniel Akst
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