The Reading Junkie

Some scholars argue that asymmetric war is like a Darwinian Ratchet. When an army “culls” the “slow and stupid” guerillas, “better” gueril...

In Chapter 2, John attempted to use his political influence to get Snyder off his back, but she's always one step ahead of him. Unless he can learn he...

(Part 2 of 6) Khiem—Kim, as pronounced by Elmer—is an odd duck. Not foreigner odd—she didn’t sound foreign when she spoke (which was not often...

Jens Stoltenberg recently suggested that our battle tanks should be solar-powered. This is actually an interesting idea, but there are problems, and t...

A band of light torques around her finger and then it drops. The rest flows down from her head and out in all directions—a messy, not-quite halo, ha...

In Chapter 1, John met Snyder, a mysterious policewoman who thinks androids are dangerous and blames him for it. Snyder is wildly confident, but seems...

With Joe Biden safely in the White House, America's most powerful corporations have launched a new privatized reign of terror almost identical to Hitl...

Nazis have lurked among us for decades, unnoticed and without restraint as they diligently worked toward a most ambitious goal. Time passed, and their...

Although it’s been harder than normal to keep track of each candidate’s policy proposals this election cycle due to all of the surrounding drama, ...

Showing compassion to those who have made bad decisions does not require that we allow them to profit at the taxpayer’s expense....

There are few modern authors commanding a greater influence on American literature than Dashiell Hammett. Hammett invented the “hard-boiled detectiv...

As a kid growing up in the desert of Northern Arizona, I used to go outside and stare into the night sky. Being so far from the lights of the cities, ...