Crime in high places
What should we do if we observe a prison camp that imprisons innocent people? That question arose when the United …
Monthly Archives: March 2014
How can the state execute you at the end of an interrogation?
Watch The Lives of Others. It is a film about the East German state security police. It shows, among other …
Guardian Angel
I just ran across an article that said hurricane Sandy reminds us how much we rely on governments to protect …
What is the balance of authority between the president and the surveillance state?
Obama to propose ending NSA’s phone call sweep My first reaction to this news item from the White House: how …
Remember World Trade Center 7
Did the people who planned World Trade Center 7’s demolition think we wouldn’t notice? Perhaps they thought that seven hours …
Prospects for a new investigation
If you were to ask a skeptic – known now as a truther due to our mindless and crude efforts …
Always faithful
I have argued many times that loving your country and supporting your government are not the same thing. “Now is …
Rethink 9/11 Evidence
Cues and associative memory affect our perceptions. They function as interpretive frameworks for visual evidence. Psychologists have done all sorts …
More incompetence where you least want to see it
Look back a bit on what has just happened in Ukraine and Crimea. During the weekend of February 22-23, Ukrainians …
Paradox of the omnicompetent state
One more time, I heard the jobs argument on the National Public Radio last night. Here is the short, simple …
Same-sex unions and social acceptance
Confusion among legal, social, and conceptual elements of gay marriage has persisted for a long time. Discussions of gay marriage …
Dallas Love Project on the 50th Anniversary
Dallas may think its reputation will never recover, after it hosted President Kennedy, Kennedy’s entourage, and Kennedy’s assassins fifty years …
The Jeffersonian 