The amazing thing about the sea is that it is perhaps the last truly unexplored frontier; most oceanographers estimate that only about ninety-five per cent of the sea has been studied. Meanwhile, the...
The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
One of the things I believe strongly in is developing institutions - legal, press, bureaucracies, academies - that are rooted in the pursuit of impartial truth. That aren't simply just bent to partisa...
A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It’s the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense o...
All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act. —Don DeLillo, Libra
In 1850 Allan Pinkerton founded the first American private detective agency; in advertisements, the company motto, We Never Sleep was inscribed under a large, unblinking Masonic-like eye, which gave r...
It was the greatest loss of life in the history of the British military, and many in the West began to portray the savage as European rather than as some native in the jungle.