Edward Snowden’s leak about NSA data collection has raised a question for Americans to consider: “In a technological world how do we defend our right to privacy?” But Sarah Ellison’s article, “The Man Who Kept The Secret,” raises a more pertinent one. “Are we fools to
I came across another example of the way our government parses words to obscure rather than clarify meaning. In the past, readers may recall I had an exchange with a former staff member for Under Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, who served in the George W. Bush administration.
On Tuesday, I quoted the comment of a Muslim woman who felt western commercial interests had enslaved women, convincing them to use their bodies to sell products. “And they are made to believe that this is freedom.” (Blog 4/7/15) Certainly, there is more than a grain of truth
The cliché is that “fact is stranger than fiction.” It isn’t, of course. Fiction is unbounded by place, time, space and the laws of physics. Yet when truth presses against the limits of reality, the effect can seem larger than fiction, overturning what we think we know. M
Last Friday, I wrote about the importance of solitude in an artist’s life. Today, I’m following up with a similar theme based on a review of H. J. Jackson’s, Those Who Write for Immortality. (”Immortal Beloved,” by William Giraldi, The New Republic, March 2015, p