The Smile of Secret Power

[This essay was adapted from an address first delivered in February at the Tenth Asia Security Conference at the Institute for Security…

[See here for the full translated transcript of the Bush-Aznar meeting discussed below.] The only thing that worries me about you is…

[Note: This commencement address was given to graduates of the Department of Rhetoric at Zellerbach Hall, University of California, Berkeley, on May…

“Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know…

For Part 1 of Mark Danner’s ‘Iraq: The War of the Imagination,’ click here. 6. So there would be no President Chalabi.…

On a cloudless day, the sky a brilliant, late-afternoon blue, my car winds its way up the Berkeley hills. Plum and pear…

[On May 16th, the New York Review of Books put the original Downing Street memo in print in this country for the…

[The following is based on the commencement address given to the graduating students of the Department of English of the University of…

1. It was October 16, 2002, and the United States Congress had just voted to authorize the President to go to war…