Tag Archive: terrorism

May 30 2012

In Which I Read the Sam Harris-Bruce Schneier Debate So You Don’t Have To

Long story short: Sam Harris said that we should specifically profile Muslims at airports, not grandmas in wheelchairs and 4-year-old girls, because if someone’s going to try to crash a plane in 2012, it’s almost certainly going to be a radicalized Muslim.  Liberals went insane, calling Harris a racist and other terrible things, atheists disowned …

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Sep 11 2011

Listening to 9/11: My Experience of the Attacks from Brooklyn

In September of 2011, I had just decided not to go back to school. I had been agonizing over whether to return to the Actors Studio Drama School (then at the New School University) for my second year of training toward a master’s degree in acting. I had just moved from Edgewater, NJ to Brighton Beach in Brooklyn …

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May 04 2011

Shows What I Know

I was on tour with the American Shakespeare Center in 2004, and we were performing in a suburb of Chicago. During our stay in the area, we were hosted at a party by someone associated with the college at which we were performing. In their foyer was a local alternative weekly that trumpeted on its cover the …

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