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Lewis Lapham: Selling Death
• September 24, 2013
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If you think about it, since 9/11, death has been the great topic of conversation in this country and the crucial building block for the national security and global surveillance state whose shadow has fallen across Washington. It has been the selling point for the loss of American liberties, the assault on American privacy, and... Read More
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Memento Mori
The Death of American Exceptionalism -- and of Me
• September 24, 2013
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[This essay will appear in "Death," the Fall 2013 issue of Lapham's Quarterly. This slightly adapted version is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine.] It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens. -- Woody Allen I admire the stoic fortitude, but at... Read More
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Bragging Rights
Eight Exceptional(ly Dumb) American Achievements of the Twenty-First Century
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Letter to an Unknown Whistleblower
How the Security State’s Mania for Secrecy Will Create You
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And Then There Was One
Delusional Thinking in the Age of the Single Superpower
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