Indefinite enemies
You're strapped to a metal table, unable to move. They stick a two-foot plastic tube up your nose, then down the back of your throat into your stomach. They squirt...
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Chasing infinity
In the new security state, not even garbage will have privacy. "Terrorism," the Chicago Sun-Times informed us last week, "has created a new market in Chicago and other big cities...
I am because you are
Their grief is too profound and too public. Their words have to be taken seriously -- allowed to mix with the politics and the self-interest and the fear, those generic...
The empowerment project
Finally, perhaps, this is bigger than personal safety. It's about rescuing our humanity. Two images compete for my attention as I write this, a month after Newtown, a week after...
Unarmed empowerment
"But my instinct was that if someone is shooting at you, it is generally better to shoot back than to cower and pray." This is the hidden argument for guns...
The social context of mass murder
Hey, loser! And so the nail is driven in. This is isolation; this is the coffin. And there are so many ways of saying it. The social context of being...
The moral equivalent of Nuremberg
My favorite quote was from the British government spokesperson, who assured us: "All ammunition used by UK armed forces falls within international humanitarian law and is consistent with the Geneva...
The moral equivalent of Nuremberg
My favorite quote was from the British government spokesperson, who assured us: "All ammunition used by UK armed forces falls within international humanitarian law and is consistent with the Geneva...
War, vets and moral injury
It's not just suicide. It's also drug overdose, car crash -- quasi- or secret suicide, carried out in fearful isolation. Young Iraq and Afghanistan vets are dying in increasing numbers...
War, vets and moral injury
It's not just suicide. It's also drug overdose, car crash -- quasi- or secret suicide, carried out in fearful isolation. Young Iraq and Afghanistan vets are dying in increasing numbers...