I agree with Joe that the Novak item is outrageous, but the nuclear war that it has kicked off between the two campaigns is … well, I don’t really know what the right word is to describe it. So far, as best I can tell in my e-mailbox, they have had three exchanges today over [...]
This is outrageous. Journalists are continually bombarded with rumors, often scurrilous. They are not news. Rumors only become news when they are confirmed, cross-checked and responded to by the target of the attack. There are two possible reasons why Novak is peddling unconfirmed cra: (a) he is getting too old to do the actual legwork [...]
I’ve read two very good books about the inefficacy of torture recently, one fiction and one nonfiction. The novel is David Ignatius’ Body of Lies, which isn’t really about torture–but it does include some fascinating descriptions of how the Jordanian intelligence service elicits information from prisoners without resorting to violence. Ignatius has written a terrific [...]
Here’s a review of the new book about my old Rolling Stone colleague Hunter S. Thompson that I wrote for the New York Times Book Review this week.
