SUCH as Chris Matthews’s biography of President Kennedy would not ordinarily seem like best-seller material. Unlike Robert Dallek’s recent big study of JFK, An Unfinished Life, it is not the product of extensive research. Nor does it cater, like...

Empathy is commendable in this case, but you have to be alive to feel empathy. Ya know, Defense Secretary Panetta just stated a week or so ago: Iran is not working on developing a nuclear weapon. And Seymour Hersh (and several of those Wikileaked State...

Past speakers have included Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post; Marcus Brauchli, executive editor of The Washington Post; Dean Baquet, now managing editor of The New York Times; and Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker.

Still, in every other respect, the auguries are not good. Again by contrast, Greg Thielmann, a former US State Department and Senate Intelligence Committee analyst, told veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh last year: ‘there is nothing that...

SUCH as Chris Matthews’s biography of President Kennedy would not ordinarily seem like best-seller material. Unlike Robert Dallek’s recent big study of JFK, An Unfinished Life, it is not the product of extensive research. Nor does it cater, like...

But is cyber war everything it’s cracked up to be, and is the United States really so behind the curve in the scramble to develop cyber weapons? According to investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the potential for cyber mayhem has "been exaggerated,"...