Tag Archives: Politics and Affairs

Two leading critics of Radio Frequency Identification technology issue a call to arms over its perceived threat to personal privacy.

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.

I spend a great deal of time thinking about prejudice.

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.

This debut novel's unique voice compellingly tells the story of young African boy pressed into soldierhood in a civil war.

A satirical look at recent events through the eyes of Bushistotle, the ruler of Athens and history's greatest philosopher-warrior-king.

My prescription for the false perception of novelty is the book Occidentalism: A Short History of Anti-Westernism.

There are few writers who can be as consistently bizarre as Carl Hiaasen. Kinky Friedman, though, is such a man.

Are the real judicial radicals those who claim they seek to restore "original intent" to the U.S. Constitution?

Those with hope for the future of U.S. relations with the Islamic world may find Faith at War depressing.