Mar 22
Sunshine, the saying goes, is the best disinfectant. But sometimes letting the sunshine in takes extraordinary measures. Bringing the cleansing rays to bear on the rotten state of the FBI in 1971 took nothing less than forcefully breaking and entering. Betty Medsger’s new book, The Burglary, the Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI (Knopf …
Mar 18
Lethal but Legal by Nicholas Freudenberg (Oxford U. Press 2014) takes on one of the great paradoxes of our time: we have the scientific capacity to support healthier, longer life spans for the earth’s population, but in fact we see the spread of novel plagues more devastating than the medieval Black Death. In place of …