The Heart of the Matter

Updated Below Why do most discussions of socialism shed so much heat and so little light? Because they’re about socialism! A word that h...

Updated Below In September 2015—over a year before Trump was elected president—Rula Jebreal wrote what I think is still one of the most i...

UPDATED BELOW: Recently I watched Amazon Studios’s The Report , written and directed by Scott Z. Burns. It’s a superb dramatization of ho...

Below is a copy of a letter I sent today to the judge overseeing sentencing for the  Kings Bay Plowshares 7 , a group of activists, severa...

Yesterday I came across this passage from a recent New York Times article on the Japanese love of cherry blossoms: The theme of many ...

And...Livia Lone is back, in ALL THE DEVILS ! A search for a pair of serial rapists leads Livia Lone down the darkest and most dangero...

The question of how much weight to give individual votes vs regional concerns is an important one on which reasonable people can differ. B...

At a party this past Saturday, I got to talking to a couple people about politics. They asked for my recommendations on what they ought to...

If you read my books, you’ve heard of Gavin de Becker, because in my author notes I frequently cite his excellent book The Gift of Fear . ...

Two op-eds in this week’s Economist that are doubly interesting side by side. In one, the magazine claims that “ America is not at war .” T...

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A few weeks ago  Publisher’s Weekly  interviewed me about  The Killer Collective ,  out on February 1. The interview is called  The Killin...

I’m deep into the new manuscript, but this week I broke down and watched a documentary I’ve been waiting a long time to see: Alex Winter’s...