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Americas official reaction to terrorist threats has been more harmful than the terrorist threats themselves: Thats what John Mueller argues in his new book OVERBLOWN: How Politicans and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them. The war on terror, he shows, has been a wild overreaction to a rare event; the odds of any American being killed by international terrorism are microscopic. John Muller holds the Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies at Ohio State University.
Also; VERLYN KLINKENBORG of the New York Times talks about the UglyRipe tomato, dying beehives across America, and Minnesotas concealed carry gun laws. His book The Last Fine Time is a gorgeous recollection of Buffalo after WWII. Hes a visiting writer in residence at Pomona college this term. Verlyn Klinkenborg will be speaking in the downtown LA Public Library ALOUD series on Sunday, March 25 at 3pm.
Plus: Attorney General ALBERTO GONZALEZ twisting slowly, slowly in the wind: In Washington, where the discussion about Alberto Gonzales’ removal has moved from “if” to “when” speculation, the talk is already turning to the question of who will take over for the scandal-plagued Attorney General.
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JOHN NICHOLS comments hes Washington Correspondent for The Nation, he writes “The Online Beat” blog at TheNation.com, and his most recent book is The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders’ Cure for Royalism (The New Press).
