Categories Essays Remote Viewing in the Sooner State Post author By Jamie Post date April 24, 2013 1 Comment on Remote Viewing in the Sooner State Assuming my issue of EYE SPY, a British glossy devoted to “The Covert World of Espionage,” can be trusted, between 1973 and 1995 the United States government (and its Chinese and Soviet rivals) spent millions hiring teams of personnel to scry photographs of enemy installations and describe their heretofore unknowable innards. Share this:ShareEmailPrintFacebookTwitterPocketLinkedInPinterestRedditTumblr Tags Clippings, Essay, Paris Review, Review
Categories Clippings Essays The Smug Technocrats who will rule Tomorrow Post author By Jamie Post date October 1, 2012 1 Comment on The Smug Technocrats who will rule Tomorrow America should be more open than ever. Women and minorities are no longer excluded from high-earning professions and, if you are willing to take on the debt, a university education is more accessible than ever before. But if anything America is less egalitarian than it once was. The income gap between rich and poor has been growing since the 1970s. More worrying than that, a permanent class system seems to be calcifying into place: people born rich are getting richer, while the poor stay poor. America’s elite has found a way to protect and perpetuate itself within what should be an inclusive system. Share this:ShareEmailPrintFacebookTwitterPocketLinkedInPinterestRedditTumblr Tags Clippings, Essay, Review
Categories Clippings Essays Diabolical women Post author By Jamie Post date March 12, 2012 “THE Vanishers” is basically a novel of “girl-on-girl psychic violence,” says Heidi Julavits of her new book. The story begins at an exclusive workshop in a bucolic village in New Hampshire, where promising students come to learn how to channel their psychic energies.” Share this:ShareEmailPrintFacebookTwitterPocketLinkedInPinterestRedditTumblr Tags Clippings, Electronic Literature, Review, The Economist