False WitnessesWhen I write fiction, when it’s working, I feel a sort of wild, anarchic freedom, one that opens a gulf between my work and my compulsion to bear witness. This is a chaotic, unruly part of myself, one that I’m not sure speaks well of me, though it is one I suspect is inseparable from the creation of art. And it pushes me to ask impertinent questions, even of the dead.
Unlucky ChildrenSigning up to orphanhood implied a claim to a vision of moral purity, a useful fundraising tool for a plight that was not mine. If that were all it had to offer, I might have been well advised to walk away.
Readiness Is Not AllAs far as I can tell, Sustainable Readiness is based on the assumption that with almost no expansion of its personnel and a huge expansion of its budget, the Army can magically do everything it’s ever done in the past, except now simultaneously.
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