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Playing tricks with your mind
MIND WARS: BRAIN RESEARCH AND NATIONAL DEFENSE By Jonathan D. Moreno Dana Press, 225 pages, $23.95 MIND WARS: BRAIN RESEARCH AND NATIONAL DEFENSE...
National Catholic Reporter, 06/22/07 by Richard Thieme · More from publication -
The torture-endangered society: Richard Thieme interviews Dr. Steven Miles about physicians' failure to reveal torture
Steven Miles is a professor of medicine and bioethics at the University of Minnesota. His forthcoming book, which has the working title Oath...
National Catholic Reporter, 01/13/06 by Richard Thieme · More from publication -
Layers of secrecy obscure facts about torture
TORTURE AND TRUTH: AMERICA, ABU GHRAIB, AND THE WAR ON TERROR By Mark Danner New York Review Books, 579 pages, $19.95 TORTURE AND TRUTH: AMERICA,...
National Catholic Reporter, 06/17/05 by Richard Thieme · More from publication -
The hunting of the snark
AMERICA'S SECRET WAR: INSIDE THE HIDDEN WORLDWIDE STRUGGLE BETWEEN AMERICA AND ITS ENEMIES By George Friedman Doubleday, 341 pages, $25.95...
National Catholic Reporter, 05/20/05 by Richard Thieme · More from publication -
The face we see in the digital mirror: how technology is changing religion
I am a middle-age man who grew to maturity in a world of text, immersed in a typographic sea. I read endlessly and began writing stories as a teen....
National Catholic Reporter, 02/11/05 by Richard Thieme · More from publication -
Living in and loving Israel day by day
"Is that how you experience Israel?" asked an Israeli last year when I shared my impressions of a week in Tel Aviv and Eilat. "With all the bombs,...
National Catholic Reporter, 07/16/04 by Richard Thieme · More from publication -
Sliding into the crazy place: the whirling images of the digital age put our sanity at risk
The Internet, like a kaleidoscope, unceasingly juxtaposes images in different patterns. Turning on the computer in the morning is almost like...
National Catholic Reporter, 05/28/04 by Richard Thieme · More from publication -
Why we are all getting a little crazy; the spooky world of James Jesus Angleton has become our own
James Jesus Angleton embodied the inevitable trajectory of a person committed to counterintelligence. Maybe he got a little crazy at the end, but...
National Catholic Reporter, 03/26/04 by Richard Thieme · More from publication -
The Episcopalians? They are us: assessing the ordination of Gene Robinson and responses to it
Just as California is often said to be the leading edge of American popular culture so that what shows up there will soon show up in Pittsburgh,...
National Catholic Reporter, 12/12/03 by Richard Thieme · More from publication -
Real conspiracies: Operation Paperclip, which assimilated Nazis into the U.S. establishment, shows the antecedents for labeling people of conscience enemies of the state
One way a government mobilizes support for morally dubious actions is to make those actions sound like the right thing to do. Decisions made for...
National Catholic Reporter, 10/03/03 by Richard Thieme · More from publication
