Old Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago had some pithy students -- Donald Rumsfeld, for one -- who tasered his mentor's laissez faire economic theories into a shock-and-awe geopolitical blueprint for remaking American democracy. The idea was to turn the country into a venture-capitalist model for the world to...

Ernest Hemingway told Lillian Ross in her famous profile of him -- "How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?" -- about the reliability categories in Brit military intelligence during The Battle of the Bulge: there was "Gen" -- general information; "the True Gen" -- semi-accurate but propagandistic stuff.; and "the...

After three-and-a-half years in a military brig somewhere in South Carolina (U.S. Guv is reticent about disclosing Gulagian addresses in or out of the country), then another year as a guest of the Federal District Court in Miami, Jose Padilla, 36, was convicted of "terrorism," and is expected to be...