Colonel Manners (with a helping hand from Tom Engelhardt) [Editor’s Note: Many publications have advice columnists, but none has our old friend…
From the time I was little, I went to the movies. They were my escape, with one exception from which I invariably…
Given how similar they sound and how easy it is to imagine one leading to the other, confusing omniscience (having total knowledge)…
In terms of pure projectable power, there’s never been anything like it. Its military has divided the world — the whole planet…
[Editor’s Note: In the sequester and government-shutdown era, the classic military newspaper Stars and Stripes is facing some of the problems of…
“But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death, and thereby make our own children…
In an increasingly phantasmagorical world, here’s my present fantasy of choice: someone from General Keith Alexander’s outfit, the National Security Agency, tracks…
[The following excerpt, from Tom Engelhardt’s book, The End of Victory Culture, is posted with permission from the University of Massachusetts Press.] 1.…
Hey, let’s talk spying! In Surveillance America, this land of spookery we all now inhabit, what else is there to talk about?…
He came and he went: that was the joke that circulated in 1979 when 70-year-old former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller had a…
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