Heart of The Matter – 5/17/11
The Ass Is A Poor Receptacle For The Head. Continue reading
Barry Eisler
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Heart of The Matter – 5/1/11
Paris is a Bitch. Continue reading
Heart of the Matter – 04/15/11
2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake. Continue reading
Heart of the Matter – 02/25
Barry gets questioned. Continue reading
Heart of The Matter – 02/06/11
Donald Rumsfeld, Defender of the Constitution (Really). Continue reading
Heart of the Matter – 11/15/10
How to Argue The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it. Here are a few… Continue reading
Heart of the Matter – 11/01/10
The Definition of Insanity Earlier this month, the Washington Post published an op-ed by Jack Devine, former CIA deputy director of operations and chief of the CIA Afghan Task Force. When I read it, I thought it was perhaps the most insane op-ed I'd ever come… Continue reading
Heart of the Matter 10/21/10
The Overton Window: More Poodle Than Panther I'm pleased to announce that At the Tea Party: The Wing Nuts, Whack Jobs and Whitey-Whiteness of the New Republican Right… and Why We Should Take It Seriously is available today! Edited by GritTV's Laura… Continue reading
Heart of the Matter – 10/03/10
This is Your Brain on War Andrew Sullivan's defense of President Obama's claimed power to have American citizens assassinated nicely reveals much of the illogic behind, and many of the dangers inherent in, America's Forever War. Let's examine it point by… Continue reading
Heart of the Matter – 08/06/10
Militarization and the Authoritarian Right Yes, former Bush administration speechwriter and current Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen's demand that "WikiLeaks Must Be Stopped" is, as his colleague Eva Rodriguez notes, "more than a little whacky." But… Continue reading
Heart of the Matter – 07/22/10
The Ministry of Truth Recently, I had the good fortune to be invited by NPR to submit an essay on a favorite thriller of mine. I decided to write about George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, which is both an excellent thriller and an increasingly powerful and… Continue reading
Heart of The Matter – 07/06/10
It's Just a Leak One of the great things about being a novelist is that the form enables me to dramatize the way the government and establishment media collude to manipulate public opinion. The phenomenon of the mainstream media laundering government talking… Continue reading
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