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“It’s not that big a deal. Medium-size, maybe. But the mania for secrecy is out of control. Are you aware that the agencies don’t just number and watermark the classified reports we get now? They do something with the spacing between the letters of each copy—the kerning?”

Jonathan Franzen • Purity: A Novel

A PR agent from Burson-Marsteller reached out to a tech blogger named Christopher Soghoian and asked him to write a critical op-ed about a Google product. Recounting the story Soghoian says Burson-Marsteller offered to “draft” the op-ed for Soghoian and get it published in a “top-tier” outlet like the Washington Post, Politico, the Hill, Roll Call,

Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote

bedlam.

William J Broad • The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards

Uncertainty is an acid, corrosive to authority. Once the monopoly on information is lost, so too is our trust. Every presidential statement, every CIA assessment, every investigative report by a great newspaper, suddenly acquired an arbitrary aspect, and seemed grounded in moral predilection rather than intellectual rigor. When proof for and agains... See more

Martin Gurri • The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium

of both “Sharon the Murderer” and “Begin the Murderer.”

Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

hegemonic

Jonathan Rosen • The Best Minds

Weltanschauung

Kai Bird • American Prometheus

substantial public interest,

Brian Hitchen • GDPR: Guiding Your Business To Compliance: A practical guide to meeting GDPR regulations. (Edition 2)

This nebulous cabal made support for Israel, portrayed as a militantly theocratic and colonialist state, the centerpiece of America’s postwar Middle East policy and the primary source of Muslim rage against the United States.