Two leading critics of Radio Frequency Identification technology issue a call to arms over its perceived threat to personal privacy.
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Book Review: Bare Naked Truth – On the Religious Right by Stacey Tallitsch
A Louisiana Congressional candidate launches an assault on what he perceives to be the combined political aims of the religious right and the Bush Administration.
Read More »Thinking About Prejudice, King
I spend a great deal of time thinking about prejudice.
Read More »Review: Fog Facts
A novelist ventures into the world of non-fiction in a not always successful effort to analyze why significant facts disappear in the fog generated by the mainstream media.
Read More »Book Review: Beasts of No Nation
This debut novel's unique voice compellingly tells the story of young African boy pressed into soldierhood in a civil war.
Read More »Book Review: The Legend of Bushistotle
A satirical look at recent events through the eyes of Bushistotle, the ruler of Athens and history's greatest philosopher-warrior-king.
Read More »There’s Nothing New About al-Qa’ida – An Essential Lesson of History
My prescription for the false perception of novelty is the book Occidentalism: A Short History of Anti-Westernism.
Read More »Book Reviews: Lucky You and Roadkill
There are few writers who can be as consistently bizarre as Carl Hiaasen. Kinky Friedman, though, is such a man.
Read More »Book Review: Radicals in Robes
Are the real judicial radicals those who claim they seek to restore "original intent" to the U.S. Constitution?
Read More »Book Review: Faith at War
Those with hope for the future of U.S. relations with the Islamic world may find Faith at War depressing.
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