The Horror and The Legacy of Steven King

Ross Douthat reviews the work and legacy of Steven King.
King’s body of work, is a vision of contemporary America as a spiritual realm that is out of joint and up for grabs, thick with competing forces and watched over by an Almighty whose goals are inscrutable, whose demands are peremptory, and whose methods are sometimes [...]

Republican Rohrabacher Defends Torture

Do we live in America, or Nazi Germany?  Listening to Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher defending the torture policies of the US makes it hard to tell.  It’s comments like his that will have independents flocking to vote for a Democrat in 2008 … any Democrat.