The general’s gone, but a new book on his big idea is essential for the coming defense debates.
James Fallows
James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic, is the author of China Airborne. His book National Defense won the American Book Award for nonfiction.
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Can the Net Govern Itself?
It is easy to make fun of the Internet’s current culture of free-lunch libertarianism. Its leaders don’t want to be taxed, regulated, or trammeled in any way–meanwhile taking for granted that they can run to the sheriff when threatened by copyright pirates or local toughs like Microsoft. But the question of Net regulation has become […]
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Technology We Hate
Technology is driving the big changes in society faster now than at any time since the decade after World War II. Back then, a raft of discoveries–atomic power, jet transportation and rocketry, television, mass immunization, and early steps toward reliable birth control–had enormous political, cultural, and demographic impact around the world. Now, there are two […]
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But Is It Journalism?
From “fly-out menus” to scandal coverage, the ins and outs of Web news.
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Rush from Judgment
We used to expect reporters and editors to place events in their proper context. Post-O.J., post-Diana, and soon (we hope) post-Monica, perhaps it’s time to ask: What happened to news judgment?
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Up Against the Wall Street Journal
O n March 11, 1993, the Wall Street Journal published a long editorial-page article called “The Industrial Policy Hoax.” It was by Karl Zinsmeister, a scholar associated with the American Enterprise Institute who in the past had written mainly about U.S. social policy. The article, which was a summary version of a much longer essay […]