The Certainty of Donald Rumsfeld
“Unfortunately, after having spent 33 hours over the course of a year interviewing Mr. Rumsfeld, I fear I know less about the origins of the Iraq war than when I started.”
Errol Morris
The Murders of Gonzago
On the film The Act of Killing, in which the actual perpetrators of a 1966-1966 Indonesian genocide recreate their own actions for the camera, and what it can tell us about our memories of the Vietnam War.
Errol Morris, Forensic Epistemologist
A conversation on the “bedeviling sorts of indeterminacies one encounters the deeper one drills.”
What's In a Name?
The author muses on the markers we use to identify ourselves and other people – from names to photographs to fingerprints.
Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck?
Noel Morris’s place in history? Noel Morris was my older brother, who had dropped out of MIT and spent most of his waking hours holed up in an apartment working at a computer terminal. This was in the ‘60s, long before there was anything close to a home computer. The name Tom Van Vleck was not unfamiliar. He was a friend of my brother’s who worked with him at MIT in those days. I called him.
Exposure
A profile of Sabrina Harman, the soldier who took many of the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs.
The Anosognosic’s Dilemma (Parts 1-5)
Through a series of interviews and historical inquiries, Errol Morris dissects Anosognosia, “a condition in which a person who suffers from a disability seems unaware of or denies the existence of his or her disability.”
