Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, and the Modern Whistle-Blower
Leaking from the inside, leaking from the outside.
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Leaking from the inside, leaking from the outside.
Malcolm Gladwell New Yorker Dec 2016 20min Permalink
“Let them say what they want. It’s not about me.”
Barton Gellman Washington Post Dec 2013 15min Permalink
“After receiving a trove of documents from the whistleblower, I found myself under surveillance and investigation by the U.S. government.”
Barton Gellman The Atlantic May 2020 25min Permalink
In March 1971, John and Bonnie Raines broke into an FBI office, stealing documents that revealed that the government was spying on its own citizens. Today, they’re hailed as heroes. Is this what the future holds for Edward Snowden?
Steve Volk Philadelphia Magazine Jan 2015 20min Permalink
The story of two weeks when the most wanted man in the world was hidden in the depths of a Hong Kong slum.
Theresa Tedesco National Post Sep 2016 15min Permalink
An obituary.
Robert D. McFadden New York Times Feb 2013 25min Permalink
A profile of Jesselyn Radack, who represents whistleblowers.
Russell Brandom The Verge Jun 2014 15min Permalink
Edward Luttwak is a rare bird whose peripatetic life and work are the envy of academics and spies alike. ...he published his first book, Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook, at the age of 26. Over the past 40 years, he has made provocative and often deeply original contributions to multiple academic fields, including military strategy, Roman history, Byzantine history, and economics.
David Samuels, Edward Luttwak Tablet Sep 2011 Permalink
A profile of documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who last January received “a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key.”
Peter Maass New York Times Magazine Aug 2013 30min Permalink
“The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response. The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.”
William Flanagan, Edward Albee The Paris Review Sep 1966 35min Permalink
Oliver Stone wanted a hit—and the chance to put America’s most iconic dissident onscreen. The subject wanted veto power. The Russian lawyer wanted someone to option the novel he’d written. The American lawyer just wanted the whole insane project to go away. Somehow a film got made.
Irina Aleksander New York Times Magazine Aug 2016 30min Permalink
Meet the Edward Snowden of European soccer.
Sam Knight New Yorker May 2019 30min Permalink
The twisting paths that brought together Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald.
Janet Reitman Rolling Stone Dec 2013 45min Permalink
Catching up with Edward Snowden in Moscow.
James Bamford Wired Aug 2014 10min Permalink
Documents from Edward Snowden show that the intelligence agency is arming America for future digital wars—a struggle for control of the Internet that is already well underway.
Der Spiegel Jan 2015 Permalink
In the latest revelation from Edward Snowden, the U.S. government is shown to collect and retain massive amounts of data on nearly 900,000 people with the most minimal of connections to official NSA targets. The collected information tells our “stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes.”
Barton Gellman, Julie Tate, Ashkan Soltani Washington Post Jul 2014 15min Permalink
Barton Gellman is a staff writer for The Atlantic and was previously a Pulitzer-winning reporter at The Washington Post. His latest book is Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State and his latest essay is "The Election That Could Break America."
“I have found that I have a talent for accidentally pissing people off. ... I’m interested most in accountability and the use and abuse of power. So naturally it’s going to annoy people sometimes. And sometimes they take it like grown-ups and sometimes less so.”
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Oct 2020 Permalink
On Edward St. Aubyn’s autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels.
Ian Parker New Yorker May 2014 50min Permalink
The author examines his closest relationships.
Edward Hoagland The American Scholar Feb 2013 25min Permalink
Jeff Sharlet writes about politics and religion for Esquire, GQ, New York Times Magazine, and more.
“I like the stories with difficult people. I like the stories about people who are dismissed as monsters. I hate the term ‘monster.’ ‘Monster’ is a safe term for us, right? Trump’s a monster. Great, we don’t need to wrestle with, ‘Uh oh, he’s not a monster. He’s in this human family with us.’ I’m not normalizing him. I’m acknowledging the fact. Now, what’s wrong with us? If Trump is human, what’s wrong with you?”
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Jan 2017 Permalink
The story of Edward Deeds, a state mental hospital patient and artistic genius.
Aimee Levitt The Riverfront Times Sep 2012 25min Permalink
Edward Stourton The Financial Times Oct 2011 10min Permalink
How Moscow State university discriminated against Jewish applicants using deceptively simple problems.
Edward Frenkel New Criterion Oct 2012 20min Permalink
After offending Richard Marx, the author meets him to hash things out.
Edward McClelland The Morning News Jan 2013 15min Permalink
Meet Britain’s “Batman of obscenity.”
Edward Docx The Guardian Sep 2015 30min Permalink