by Robin Kirk | Apr 20, 2015 | featured, Robin Kirk
FBI director James Comey has caused a dust up between the United States and Poland with a recent opinion piece in the Washington Post (and reprinted in the Raleigh News and Observer). Titled “The most frightening lesson from the Holocaust,” Comey calls the...
by Robin Kirk | Mar 14, 2015 | featured, Robin Kirk
(from the April issue of Sojourners) There’s no better sequel to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee’s executive summary of the torture report than Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s just-published Guantánamo Diary (Little, Brown and Company). This...
by Robin Kirk | Jan 25, 2015 | Robin Kirk
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.” The third man was not masked; he stayed at the door holding the dog’s collar, ready to release...
by Robin Kirk | Dec 16, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
I was delving into the torture report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee last week when my daughter texted [since I originally posted this entry, new chair Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) has withdrawn the report from the site in a misguided effort to suppress...
by Robin Kirk | Dec 9, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
I was beginning to delve into the report on torture released by the Senate Intelligence Committee when my daughter texted. A senior at college, she was following the New York Times twitter feed highlighting the executive summary as reporters raced to the end....
