The Wars We Tell Ourselves
The World Was Right
On Vietnam as the war the rest of the world understood correctly in real time, while America spent a generation arriving at what everyone else already knew
The Hidden History
The Wars We Tell Ourselves
The War We Arrived Late To
On America's entry into the First World War, the financial interests that preceded it, and how the peace Americans helped impose made the Second War arithmetically inevitable
The Wars We Tell Ourselves
The PR War
On the fabricated atrocity that launched the Gulf War, the diplomatic signals that preceded it, and the half-million children who died in the sanctions that followed it
The Wars We Tell Ourselves
The Manufactured War
On the deliberate fabrication of the case for the Iraq War, the largest anti-war protest in human history that was ignored, and the half-million dead that followed
The Wars We Tell Ourselves
The Longest Lie
On twenty years of public optimism and private despair in Afghanistan, the offer that was refused before the war began, and the two weeks that exposed everything
The Wars We Tell Ourselves
The Good War
On the Eastern Front that Americans don't know, the war crimes committed in the name of defeating fascism, and what the mythology of the best war costs us in our understanding of the wars that followed
The Wars We Tell Ourselves
The Frame
On how America's geographic insulation, its entertainment apparatus, and managed journalism built a population systematically unable to see its own wars from the outside
The Wars We Tell Ourselves
The Forgotten War
On why America forgot Korea, what the air campaign actually did to the peninsula, and how a 70-year armistice became the world's most dangerous unresolved conflict
The Phenomenon
They Died for Telling
On the researchers, witnesses, and insiders who did not survive their knowledge: the geologist who lost his fingers underground and was found dead weeks later, the astronomer who died on UFO Day, the Navy researcher whose 'suicide' left more questions than it answered, and the full toolkit the suppr
The Phenomenon
The Misinformation Machine
On the Air Force intelligence agent who deliberately destroyed a civilian researcher, the doctrine of the limited hangout, why some of the most compelling disclosure figures may be the most managed, and how you hide the truth by surrounding it with enough noise that the signal cannot be heard.
The Phenomenon
Roswell and the Architecture of Secrecy
On the press release that lasted six hours, the weather balloon that fooled no one, Project Blue Book's institutional purpose, the Robertson Panel's actual mandate, and how the American national security apparatus built a suppression system that has outlasted every administration that created it.
The Phenomenon
Gods, Ancestors, Visitors
On the hypothesis that the entities described as gods in the ancient record, as angels and demons in the medieval one, and as extraterrestrials in the modern one are the same phenomenon rendered in the available vocabulary of each era — and what the mystery tradition has always understood that the s