"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Author Richard Bookstaber, a hedge fund “rocket scientist”, presents a scary scenario in Demon of Our Own Design. Today’s financial markets are so complex and tightly coupled that a tremor in one area can have massive, unexpected fallout in another.…
The author of Why Religious Militants Kill, Jessica Stern, is no armchair analyst. She’s “the foremost U.S. expert on terrorist” and to research the book she traveled worldwide, and met with terrorists. She, a Jewish woman traveling alone, met with…
Joe Bageant grew up redneck in Winchester Virginia, escaped to the city, became a “godless commie,” moved back thirty years later, and wrote this book about it. It’s subtitled “Dispatches from America’s Class War.” He looks at the people that…
Blackwater is the best known of the private military contractors (PMC) in Iraq. There are a number of books out now about PMCs and mercenaries — I chose Pelton’s Licensed To Kill because of his reputation and his previous books.…
What if warfare was reinvented and nobody bothered to tell the Pentagon? That is the thesis to John Robb’s Brave New War. Globalization, the Internet, cellphones, etc. have created a world in which information spreads very fast, can not be…