Jonathan Hansen

Bio

Jonathan M. Hansen, a historian at Harvard University, is the author of The Lost Promise of Patriotism: Debating American Identity, 1890–1920.
Office Hours: Will Guantánamo See Its First Execution?
By Jonathan Hansen
If President Barack Obama remains committed to putting Guantánamo behind us, he has an odd way of showing it. On Wednesday, November 9, in the first military tribunal to open on Mr. Obama’s watch, Guantánamo officials arraigned Abd al-Rahim…