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Hedges on the fate of journalism
Chris Hedges, who has appeared on these pages several times recently, casts his eyes on the future of American journalism in this review of The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media...
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Naomi Wolf on ‘The End of America’
A November 18, 2007 interview with Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, describing the parallels between developments in the United States and the rise of...
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The Pentagon’s media spinners
While it’s common knowledge that the corporate lobbyists and political hucksters are adept at spinning the media—especially in these days of a radically downsized press corps—it’s a different matter...
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LSD, the CIA, and the rise of the counterculture
The greatest event that never happened? esnl’s pick would be the time a timely intervention by a senior spook spiked subordinates’ plans to spike the punch at The Company’s annual Christmas party with...
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Economic crisis worsens, KBR scoops up loot
Obama’s embracing his inner Dubya From “The Poetry of Death: Patterns of State Terror,” an essay by Chris Floyd on the Obama administration’s continuities with and expansions of some of Dubya’s most...
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A deadly stew of acronyms: When CIA meets LSD
Investigative writer H.P. “Hank” Albarelli Jr., an, attorney, and former Carter administration official, has written a devastating expose of Central Intelligence Agency drug experiments, with his focus...
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Roots of the surveillance state lie in imperialism
In this fascinating look back through history, Alfred J. McCoy [previously] traces the rise of the modern snooper state to the nation’s first overseas colonial war, the brutal suppression of Philippine...
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Kurt Vonnegut: ‘How to Get a Job Like Mine’
Between the smiles and the laughter, Vonnegut reveals himself as a latter-day Luddite: “I need a typewriter. There is no longer such a thing, anywhere.” Such a pleasure, seeing and hearing the writer...
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Texas school board urges new textbook purge
As expected, the Texas Board of Education passed a resolution Friday decreeing that their states textbooks should be purged of references to Islam. By law, the board couldn’t adopt a binding resolution...
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GWB Roundup: Obama guy, war crimes, prank
We’ll go from the ridiculous to the visceral, then on to pranksters. First the ridiculous: Bush would’ve endorsed Obama Really, this is not a joke, but a report from The New American’s Thomas R....
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MediaWatch: Pay for play in the world of reviews
Back in the 1960s when esnl was a cub reporter and newspapers employed lots of scribes, reviewing was a major part of the medium’s functions. These days, reviews are few and far between, and websites...
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Thug Notes: The classics in another voice
Take a trip to Thug Notes. The first thing to catch your eye is the slogan: Thug Notes: Classical literature. Original Gangster. And then there’s the greeting: Welcome to Thug Notes, your main hookup...
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U.S. forced sterilization, aped by the Nazis
One of the darker chapters of U.S. history involved the medicalization of problems that were actually matters of sex, class, and ethnicity. And of the measures taken by physicians, with the full...
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Chart of the day: Americans and their books
More from the Gallup report: The number of Americans who say they read no books in the past year has doubled since the first time Gallup asked this in 1978, from 8% then to 16% now, but has been...
View ArticleQuote of the day: It’s called ‘blowing smoke’
From constitutional lawyer Stephen Rohde, describing a surreal encounter between Presidential-son-in-law Jared Kusher and a Pulitzer Winning journalist in a Los Angeles Review of Books essay reviewing...
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