A few days ago I was watching a televised sports talk roundtable discussion in which the participants debated the moral culpability of Mike McQueary, the former Penn State quarterback, who as a graduate assistant in 2002, witnessed Jerry Sandusky rape a 10-year-old child. McQueary, it seems, did not use his...

In a recently published book, Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Kelly argue that the crisis of our current age stems from the indecision and resulting nihilism that come from our having lost the system of values provided by monotheism. In the Christian age our correct course of action in...

While the traditional media and the United States government continue to fixate on the individual Julian Assange, a not so subtle cultural shift is taking root worldwide: Hacktivist culture is rapidly morphing from a small underground subculture into mainstream culture for a younger generation, not just in the United States,...

There has been plenty of venom spewed about the recently arrested Julian Assange, ranging from calls for his assassination to claims that he is an anarchist and even (according to Newt Gingrich) that he runs a terrorist organization. On the other side there have been those who view him positively...

In a recent post on Alternet, Bucu Bakliogu and Peter Ludlow discussed 10 of the most significant hacktivist actions over the last 20 years. In this post, I go into more detail on the #1 hacktivist action on their list: the Electronic Disturbance Theater event. Here I go...

I recently saw a TV commercial in which British redcoats were routed by a company of revolutionary soldiers and a handful of Dodge Challengers. The voice over at the end said 'here are a couple of things America got right: cars, and freedom'. My mind was so scarred by the...