HeyJaredMelissa Dalton-Bradford
Melissa has authored an extensive body of writing, including scholarship in WWII Germany. She and her husband have lived 30+ years internationally, and are now in Germany, from where they’re seeing history repeat in their homeland.
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- Jul 8, 2026
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WHY THIS MOMENT HAUNTS ME (opens the original)
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You see it before you see anything else. The jeep turns off the paved road, and the world goes to mud, and there, against a sky the color of liquefied bone, one tree holds its gnarled old arms out over eight square miles of exile. Someone named it the Tree of Hope. That name conveys none of the irony you’d expect. It just stands there—maybe resolute, maybe obedient, probably exhausted—while below it nearly a million people wait for a conflict to end that, let’s admit it, has zero interest in end
SCOLIOSIS OF THE STATE: WHAT WE MUST DO WHEN DEMOCRACY’S SPINE COLLAPSES (opens the original)
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Why This Book, Why Now (opens the original)
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