ENLISTING PRESS AS SPIES DISTRESSING
I was appalled to discover the CIA can secretly recruit journalists and clergy as spies. People all over the planet already have enough reasons to hate journalists. Why add another...
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VOICES FOR THE VOICELESS?
I hope Jesse Jackson was listening to Pat Buchanan's victory speech after the New Hampshire primary. Jackson should have been pleased to hear Buchanan call himself "a voice for the...
THE NATURE OF INTELLIGENCE
Whew! That was close. For a day or so it looked as though a machine might beat man at one of man's games. At first it looked as though world...
AMERICA’S OTHER LEADERSHIP CRISIS
You hear a lot of talk these days about whether America has a crisis in black leadership. I think we have a crisis in white leadership. Take the president. Please....
MAN TALK
In the wake of the O.J. Simpson verdict, the Million Man March and endless consternation over escalating violence and incarceration rates among black youths, Darrell Dawsey's "Living to Tell About...
THE RUDENESS OF RACE
Race has long had a rude presence in my life. While visiting relatives in Alabama as a child in the 1950s, I first saw water fountains marked "white" and "colored."...
PILLOW TALK
I don't know who "Anonymous" is, but I have a theory. First, the background. "Anonymous," is the author of the No. 1 best-seller "Primary Colors," a comic novel that presents...
JUSTICE FOR ALL?
Pity poor Robert L. Grace Jr. He's the co-prosecutor in the case of rap star Snoop Doggy Dogg, a.k.a. Calvin Broadus, who is on trial for murder in Los Angeles....
IS THE CYNICISM OF THE PRESS OUT OF CONTROL?
A few minutes into the beginning of our joint appearance on National Public Radio's "On the Media" program, media critic James Fallows paid me a tantalizingly backhanded compliment. "It is...
CHAIN OF CIRCUMSTANCES
Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan raised international eyebrows recently when, during a visit to Libya, President-for-life Col. Moammar Gadhafi pledged to work with him to influence American politics and...