Invasion of the Body Searchers: The Loss of Bodily Integrity in an Emerging Police State
If you want a recipe for disaster, take police officers hyped up on their own authority and the power of…
North Korea in Fiction and as Fiction
It is perhaps easy for Hollywood to portray North Korea as a fictional enemy when so much of North Korea’s…
The Ploughman
Hoof beats echoed through the gentle rain and brought the ploughman to his senses. He sighed and let the soil…
The Magician’s Con: Renewing FISA and the NDAA Under Cover of the Fiscal Cliff Debates
What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind…
The Beatles in Hamburg: An Interview with Ian Inglis
The most successful and influential pop group of all time, the Beatles landed in America in February 1964. By the…
Government Violence: The Missing Link in the Gun Control Debate
It didn’t take long for the tragedy of the Newtown, Connecticut shootings, which left 20 schoolchildren and six adults dead,…
EyeSee You and the Internet of Things: Watching You While You Shop
Thanks to the wonders of technology, the indifference of the general public to the growing surveillance state, the inability of…
Little Miss Perfidious and the Sad, Old, Pervert Hiding in the Corner
I sometimes forget my true love is the contents of the bottle, not those who pour it. But it is…
Reimagining Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) was the highly criticised, and often ignored, Science Fiction film that initiated a new…
Poems by Jonas Sidell
Jonas Sidell returns to Gadfly with two more poems: lamenting, peering inward, a reflection on the stripped down feeling that…