Covert Ops

The Spies Who Loved Us? The Spies Who Loved Us?

I still kick myself for not having saved the short story I wrote for composition class in seventh grade in which I described how the Russians took over my small suburban communit...

May 6, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Ellen Schrecker

Gore Vidal

Requiem for the American Empire Requiem for the American Empire

“Empires are restless organisms. They must constantly renew themselves; should an empire start leaking energy, it will die.”

Jan 11, 1986 / From the Archive / Gore Vidal

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