James Carroll

James Carroll, TomDispatch regular and former Boston Globe columnist, is the author of 20 books, most recently the novel The Cloister. His history of the Pentagon, House of War, won the PEN-Galbraith Award. His Vietnam War memoir, An American Requiem, won the National Book Award. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

A visitor peeks through slats in the inner wall into the "death zone" at a preserved portion of the Berlin Wall at Bernauer Strasse on October 31, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

What the dismantling of the Berlin Wall means 30 years later

James Carroll