Author Archives: MZR

The following is adapted from the preface to the British edition of John Grisham’s new baseball novel, “Calico Joe”, which is available on jgrisham.com. Over a long publishing lunch in London, I realized that my British friends, while enjoying the … Continue reading →

Posted on Apr 23, 2012 By Chris Hedges I went to Lille in northern France a few days before the first round of the French presidential election to attend a rally held by the socialist candidate François Holland. It was … Continue reading →

Posted on Apr 16, 2012 By Chris Hedges Tarek Mehanna, a U.S. citizen, was sentenced Thursday in Worcester, Mass., to 17½ years in prison. It was another of the tawdry show trials held against Muslim activists since 9/11 as a … Continue reading →

April 14, 2012 By ROSS DOUTHAT A MAN wakes up in a New York apartment, brews coffee and goes out into the world, and everything that can appear on a smartphone or iPad appears before his eyes instead: weather reports, … Continue reading →

Posted on Mar 26, 2012 By Chris Hedges I spent four hours in a third-floor conference room at 86 Chambers St. in Manhattan on Friday as I underwent a government deposition. Benjamin H. Torrance, an assistant U.S. attorney, carried out … Continue reading →

March 20, 2012 By MAUREEN DOWD Washington When the gentleman from North Carolina mentioned “Uncle Chang,” it hit with an awkward clang. “We are spending $10 billion a month that we can’t even pay for,” said Congressman Walter Jones, that … Continue reading →

March 14, 2012 By GREG SMITH TODAY is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in … Continue reading →

Posted on Mar 12, 2012 By Chris Hedges Totalitarian systems disempower an unsuspecting population by gradually making legal what was once illegal. They incrementally corrupt and distort law to exclusively serve the goals of the inner sanctums of power and … Continue reading →

Posted on Feb 19, 2012 By Chris Hedges Love, the deepest human commitment, the force that defies empirical examination and yet is the defining and most glorious element in human life, the love between two people, between children and parents, … Continue reading →

Posted on Jan 26, 2012 By Robert Scheer I’ll admit it: Listening to Barack Obama, I am ready to enlist in his campaign against the feed-the-rich Republicans … until I recall that I once responded in the same way to … Continue reading →