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Contributed by Naomi Klein
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This article is a preprint for subscribers. It will appear in the October 2007 Harper?s Magazine. . . .
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Contributed by Scott Horton
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In the recent history of our country, the calling of federal prosecutor has been a vital one. It has in a sense been the most critical building block upon which the American democracy has rested, for it assures justice, without which we would have no democracy. Thousands of young Americans who aspire to a career in public service seek and secure positions as assistant United States attorneys. Many of these individuals?a disproportionately high number of them in fact?go on to pursue careers in politics. In recent decades there has been no more important well from which the two great political parties have drawn human material. . . .
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Contributed by Administrator
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The philosopher instrument is sentient; he?s at the same time the musician and the instrument. Sentient, he has a momentary consciousness of the sound he is rendering; animal, he remembers it; memory, the organic faculty, by connecting the sounds inside itself, at the same time produces and retains the melody. Imagine that the harpsichord possesses both sentience and memory, and tell me if it won?t know and replay by itself the tunes you have played on its keys. We are instruments endowed with sentience and memory. Our senses are like keys plucked by the environment which surrounds us, and that often pluck themselves; and there, in my judgment, you have everything that takes place in a harpsichord constructed like you and me. . . .
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Contributed by Scott Horton
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When the U.S. attorneys scandal first surfaced, concerns came to focus very quickly on criminal investigations into a group of close friends among the California G.O.P. Congressional delegation. The case of ?Duke? Cunningham had gotten broad press, and it was clear that Carol Lam, the U.S. Attorney in San Diego, had run afoul of the White House by carrying it through to a headline-grabbing conviction. The Cunningham prosecution was, in fact, the single most spectacular corruption conviction in U.S. Congressional history, and the ?Dukester?s? mendacity made terrific copy for newspapers and magazines. . . .
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Contributed by Scott Horton
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Dear Editors: . . .
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