It began when Mohamed Bouazizi, a twenty-six-year-old fruit seller, set himself alight last December 17th in provincial Tunisia. Bouazizi was…
Continue reading →Time for Outrage!
Toward the end of 2010, a small book by a 93-year-old man unexpectedly reached the summit of the bestseller list…
Continue reading →Politicians and Freebies
First it was Tunisia’s Zein El Abidine Ben Ali. Then it was Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak. Ousted by their own people?…
Continue reading →I Wish I Were in Cairo
It is hard for an old hack like me to sit still when a big story is unfolding. Not so…
Continue reading →Egypt Surprises the West Again
My old political philosophy teacher Professor Yusuf Ibish outlined the conditions he thought would lead inevitably to revolution. They included…
Continue reading →Aging More Gracefully Than England
As I write these words and watch them grow into sentences, I am living the final hours of my fifties.…
Continue reading →Stéphane Hessel: From Resistance to Indignance
Late last year, a small book by a ninety-three-year-old man unexpectedly reached the summit of France’s bestseller list. Stéphane Hessel’s…
Continue reading →On Guarding the Public’s Right to Ignorance and Meeting With Julian Assange
When a journalist disappears in Russia or is murdered in Iraqi Kurdistan, his or her colleagues in safer climes stand…
Continue reading →Henry Kissinger’s Fakepolitik
Henry Kissinger should emulate Old Marley’s ghost, which “floated out upon the bleak, dark night” from the chambers of Mr.…
Continue reading →Boeing Boeing Gone
You can fly safely this Christmas knowing that hundreds of federal agencies and their private contractors are working around the…
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