Civil Liberties in the Post-9/11 Era

September 12, 2011Erik Kain

Jason Kuznicki has one of the most stirring 9/11 posts I’ve read. Forgive me a longer-than-usual excerpt: September 11 was the day “Orwellian” stopped being an argument against anything. It became a checklist. My country started collecting various-sized bits of Nineteen Eighty-Four like so many grim commemorative postage stamps. Constant surveillance. Constant warfare. Constant suspicion. […]

Erik Kain

Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the editor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.