For Robert Jay Lifton, treating veterans’ trauma was an antiwar tool. How did PTSD, the diagnosis he helped create, come to accommodate state violence?

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The saga of the Klamath provokes a more fundamental, yet often ignored, set of questions: What is a river for? Irrigation?