The Hackensack

I've avoided writing about this here so far, though one comment I've made elsewhere is that the U.S. Army's policy of keeping mo...

In a previous post ( "Life Imitates Science Fiction" ), I mentioned hearing about a new gadget that was similar to a futuristic de...

During downtime years ago, I read through a book of Medal of Honor citations. One of the most impressive ones was for Master Sergeant Roy Be...

On his Atlantic blog ( "The End of the Torture Debate" ), Ta-Nehisi Coates appears to consider the phrase "enhanced interrog...

The mention of Mark Bowden in the previous post ( "Gaza versus Somalia" ) brought to mind a cover article Bowden wrote for the Atl...

On his Atlantic blog, Jeffrey Goldberg notes a similarity between the Israeli operation in Gaza and the American one, years ago, in Somalia...

We went to see the pre-hipster rock band The Cult play at Irving Plaza Sunday night with another couple, and, since this was a fairly older...