Category: John Whitehead Commentaries

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” ― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means If…

“You’re either a cop or little people.”—Police captain Harry Bryant in Blade Runner For those of us who have managed…

“The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its…

“It’s been three weeks since the flashbang exploded next to my sleeping baby, and he’s still covered in burns. There’s…

If you dress police officers up as soldiers and you put them in military vehicles and you give them military…

Back in the heyday of the old Soviet Union, a phrase evolved to describe gullible western intellectuals who came to…

Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the…

We want no Gestapo or secret police. The FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals…

Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the…