Author: suskind

Ecce Homo:  Latin for “behold the man.”  When Christ was driven through the streets mocked and humiliated, scourged, bloody and beaten, wearing a purple robe and a crown of thorns, Roman authorities were...

It Can’t Happen Here Sinclair Lewis (1935) From 70 years ago:  Dark and not so humorous tale of a fascist takeover in the US.  It starts with the highly contested election of an oafish yet strangely charismatic...

NSA Spies On US Journalists This piece does not require a tinfoil hat, just a thinking cap. Eleven days before Andrea Mitchell asked author and NYT reporter James Risen whether he had any knowledge that the NSA had been spying...

DEUS EX MACHINA deus ex ma*chi*na literally “God From The Machine”   noun 1. In Greek and Roman drama, a god lowered by stage machinery to resolve a plot or extricate the protagonist from a difficult situation....

In 2004 he was lauded as Man of the Year: “Time magazine’s editors chose Bush as Person of the Year “for sharpening the debate until the choices bled, for reframing reality to match his design, for gambling his...