On the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on our country, here are some of the guests I’ve talked to over the years who said things different from what you may have heard elsewhere: John Farmer, senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission and author of “The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack […]
I thought we were long done with the con man James McCormick, who sold Iraq fake bomb detectors and made over $80 million. That scam was first revealed by my friend James Randi more than six years ago (here’s our conversation about it in January, 2010), but even after McCormick was sentenced to a decade […]
Sebastian Junger, director of “Restrepo” and author of “The Perfect Storm,” “Fire,” and “A Death In Belmont,” returned to my show to discuss his new book, “Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging.” We talked about the plight of the large number of veterans returning from war who wind up alienated and depressed. Life at home, where […]
Here’s my conversation with Ryan Devereaux, one of the investigative reporters at The Intercept who have compiled “The Assassination Complex: Inside The Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program.” Among the questions I asked him: If the drone program is secret, how do you know about it? Is it helping reduce the numbers of Isis, Al Qaeda, […]
Andrew Shaver offers some perspective on how unlikely it is that you’ll be killed by terrorism today — you have a better chance of being crushed by furniture: You, your family members, your friends, and your community are all significantly more at risk from a host of threats that we usually ignore than from terrorism. […]
It was a scene straight out of the Jake Gyllenhaal movie, “Nightcrawler.” One of most ridiculous things I’ve seen on TV in a long time was the sight of TV reporters gaining access to the home of the San Bernadino shooters and then rummaging through what they found — as viewers watched live this afternoon. There […]