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Pearl Harbor: The Controversy Continues

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At 7:53 am. on Sunday, December 7, 1941, a Japanese force of 183 fighters, bombers, and torpedo planes struck the United States Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Some 4,500 Americans were killed or wounded. As news of the surprise attack spread, William F. Friedman, an Army cryptanalyst who had helped to break the Japanese diplomatic "Purple" code, said to his wife repeatedly, "But they knew, they knew, they knew." Meanwhile, the British doubleagent Dusko Popov got an incomplete account of the attack while aboard a tramp steamer. He assumed the Americans had been ready for the Japanese attack — it was he who had given the FBI the Japanese plans for the air raid. Popov would recall, "I was sure the American fleet had scored a great victory over the Japanese. I was very, very proud that I had been able to give the warning to the ...

Free or Not?

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Free Bonus! FanMail!! Time magazine recently published its annual cover story on health, focusing on the relationship between mind and body. To its credit, it contains some rarely heard criticisms of the mental-health laws, which nearly everyone accepts as appropriate in the land of the free. But as John Cloud writes, “ diagnoses can be used by courts to lock you up in a mental hospital.” He should have added: “. . . even if you have never harmed anyone.” Cloud goes far in exposing the mere mortals who impersonate imposing psychiatric wizards: “Though it’s fashionable these days to think of psychiatry as just another arm of medicine, there is no biological test for any of these disorders.” This is psychiatry’s dark secret. But it’s true. “Diseases” of the mind — a metaphorical organ — must be metaphorical diseases, as psychiatric critic Thomas Szasz has been ...

Crossing the Rubicon

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Have you noticed how many Americans get upset over the comparisons that are increasingly being made between the United States and National Socialist Germany? After all, it’s not as though we’re living in a police state, right? Well, if U.S. officials could somehow assure us that the U.S. government’s treatment of accused terrorists isn’t moving in the same direction in which Nazi Germany treated accused traitors, maybe that would help to put those comparisons to rest. Habeas corpus Contrary to popular opinion, the cornerstone of a free society lies not with the freedoms enumerated in the First Amendment. They’re important, but much more important is what very well could be considered to be the lynchpin of a free society — the right of habeas corpus — a right that is guaranteed within the original ...