David Cole

In Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, set in the not-all-that-distant future, police in Washington, D.C., have hit upon a way — through the enslavement of psychic visionaries — to predict and prevent future crimes. Would-be criminals are apprehended before they actually break the law and are punished for their intent to do so. But as one […]

The calamitous attacks of September 11 have imposed on Americansa sense of vulnerability that we’ve been privileged to avoid for a long time. Butas we respond to the threat of terrorism in our midst, and as the nation takes upwhat President Bush has called a fight for our freedoms, we must maintain ourcommitments to those […]