Mark Danner

Mark Danner has written on politics and foreign policy for 25 years, focusing on war and conflict. He is Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights, Democracy, and Journalism at Bard College.

Among many other subjects, Danner has covered Central America, Haiti, the Balkans, and Iraq and the Middle East. He is the author of The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War; The Road to Illegitimacy; Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror; and The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War’s Buried History, as well as forthcoming books on the former Yugoslavia and Haiti.

Danner has been a staff writer at The New Yorker and is a frequent contributor to New Y


Articles by Mark Danner

Tuesday December 6

We Are All Torturers Now

At least since Watergate, Americans have come to take for granted a certain story line of scandal, in which revelation is followed by investigation, adjudication and expiation. Together, Congress and the courts investigate high-level wrongdoing and place it in a carefully constructed narrative, in which crimes are charted, malfeasance is explicated and punishment is apportioned