Common Core: A Lesson Plan for Raising Up Compliant, Non-Thinking Citizens
As I point out in my new book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, there are several…
Author: John W. Whitehead
Licensed to Kill: The Growing Phenomenon of Police Shooting Unarmed Citizens
Here’s a recipe for disaster: Take a young man (or woman), raise him on a diet of violence, hype him…
Farewell to Big Sister: Janet Napolitano’s Orwellian Legacy Lives On
....And then there’s the news about Friday, September 6, 2013, being Janet Napolitano’s last day as head of the Department…
Ten Reasons Why America Does Not Need to Go to War Over Syria
For once, I would love to hear a government official reject a call to war because it is immoral; because…
Miley Cyrus and the Pornification of America
There’s a strange irony to the fact that on the same week of the 93rd anniversary of the ratification of…
The NSA: ‘The Abyss from Which There Is No Return’
We now find ourselves operating in a strange paradigm where the government not only views the citizenry as suspects but…
The Police State Mindset in Our Public Schools
Once upon a time in America, parents breathed a sigh of relief when their kids went back to school after…
The American Surveillance State is Here. Can It Be Evaded?
“If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is…
Kafka’s America: Secret Courts, Secret Laws, and Total Surveillance
“Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Where was the judge…
Grasping for Dignity in the Era of the American Police State
“The Fourth Amendment was designed to stand between us and arbitrary governmental authority. For all practical purposes, that shield has…