“Happy Counterterrorism Day” is an article in Harper’s Magazine that, if you haven’t read, you must. I think this one’s going on my imaginary bookshelf with Umberto Eco’s Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt. Remember: sooner or later, we’re all subject to the iron boot. If you don’t stand up for your [...]

Robert Anton Wilson just died. It’s sad, despite his wishes. I’ve loved his writing since I was a teenager and had just discovered Illuminatus! and Cosmic Trigger. He was a friend of Timothy Leary, Anton X. LeVey, Philip K. Dick, and lots of others from that crowd. He’s the source of my skepticism and the [...]