“ When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies. Glenn Greenwald
“ The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, is a city consecrated to the worship of a father-son dynasty. (I came to think of them, with their nuclear-family implications, as 'Fat Man and Little Boy.') And a… Christopher Hitchens
“ Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over variou… George Packer
“ In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison. Christopher Hitchens
“ Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings, I felt something that I couldn’t analyze at first and didn't fully grasp (partly because I was far… Christopher Hitchens
