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Robert Meagher

Robert Emmet Meagher is Professor of Humanities, Hampshire College, Amherst. His publishing career includes many books, translations, and original plays, most recently Herakles Gone Mad: Rethinking Heroism in an Age of Endless War and War and Moral Injury. For many years he has served in a range of veteran-focused programs aimed at understanding and healing soldiers with PTSD. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.


On Albert Camus’s Legendary Postwar Speech at Columbia University

“The years we have gone through have killed something in us.”
November 10, 2021  By Robert Meagher
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