“Politics don’t belong in sports” is an oft-heard mantra. The fact is, the two are such a large part of American society they cannot help but be intertwined. Look at the focus on Pat Tillman when he left the NFL to join the Army and when he was killed in …
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As I Please: George Orwell Revisited
...to fathom the contempt George Orwell would have held for current standards of reportage.
Read More »Hunter’s Last Flight
Hunter S. Thompson will take his last flight. Happy landings!
Read More »Book Review: The Making of 9/11’s Perfect Soldiers
Some journalism doesn’t fit the inherent constraints of newspapers or magazines. Often, that is because the subject is too massive and requires longer periods of investigation than what these formats tend to demand in immediacy. Terry McDermott’s exploration of the 9/11 terrorists, Perfect Soldiers, is an example of this. McDermott, …
Read More »God vs. the Gavel: Analyzing Conflicts Between Law and Religion
Collisions between government and religion were partly responsible for the founding of this country. Some 200 years later, those collisions continue. A legal framework for dealing with constitutional issues raised by some of those collisions is the focus of Marci Hamilton’s book, God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule …
Read More »Book Review: North Korea
I went to North Korea in 1998 and it was, and no doubt still is, a most fascinating, if spooky, place.
Read More »Book Review: Terry Jones’s War on the War on Terror
There probably isn’t a middle ground on Terry Jones’s views of the “war on terror.” You either agree with him or you don’t. Yet even if you do, Terry Jones’s War on the War on Terror comes off more as toss-off than lasting political commentary. Jones, whose biggest but not …
Read More »Hunter S. Thompson: An Iconoclast for the Ages
If by the end his writing grew more frenetic and his screeds wilder who's to blame him given the current crop of slime that work in politics. Going from the hope of Bobby Kennedy to the cynicism of George W. Bush would be enough to warp anyone's brain.
Read More »Speaking Freely: A Trial Lawyer on the First Amendment
Floyd Abrams earned his reputation as one of this country’s leading First Amendment lawyers in the trenches as a trial lawyer. That’s what makes his Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment a welcome addition to the history of First Amendment law. Abrams takes us inside his involvement with seven …
Read More »What’s all the Fuss about the new Euro Constitution?
Many people have quite heated positions on the subject of the new European Constitution but to my way of thinking, it’s such a simple no-brainer that at times it’s hard to remember what all the fuss is about. The proposed reforms will strengthen my rights as a citizen of the …
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