God is Not Great – by Christopher Hitchens
If you had asked me a week ago what I thought of this book, I’d have answered — “It’s much more readable than Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion. That’s not what I think now. Writing…
July 2007
The Degaev Affair – by Richard Pipes
For some time now I have been a student of the decades long secret war between Russian revolutionaries and the tsarist police. (Attentive readers of this website will be aware that my research culminated a…
Want everyone to be able to read your emails?
That’s what you get when you send an unencrypted email. It’s like sending all your messages by postcard, without an envelope. Of course if you don’t mind governments, employers, corporations, and ISPs reading your emails…
Online organizing: The counter-attack begins
A decade ago, South Korean workers used the Internet to produce live reports (including video) about their general strikes. At the time, they were way ahead of the rest of the world in maximizing the…