Paul Likoudis

Latest by Paul Likoudis in Chronicles

• Cultural Revolutions

  March 2008

  To Catch a Terrorist

  Today, civil libertarians of the right and the left deplore the growing Police State; they object to the fact that citizens can be arrested, tasered, and detained without cause; that their phone calls, e-mails, and other private communications, as well as their travel, can be monitored; that citizens must exercise prior restraint on their very thoughts.

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• Cultural Revolutions

  March 2005

  Endorsing Torture

  Alberto Gonzales’s nomination as attorney general by President George W. Bush makes official what has long been hidden and/or denied: The United States, contrary to her public professions and signed treaties, endorses and uses torture.

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• Vital Signs

  February 1997

  Killer Hedges

  Sometimes it takes distance and time passed before we can look back and laugh at the situations that take place in our lives, but Tom Fleming's run-in with the busybodies in his hometown who objected to his bushes made me laugh, because my wife and I had a similar encounter.

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