John le Carre’s 2013 novel, A Delicate Truth, includes a return of sorts, if only briefly, to the practice of an agent disguising himself as a journalist in order to […]

In intelligence work, one-upping the opposition is what it’s all about. And for any spy, the trick is to not be discovered for as long as possible. Novelist John le

Information culled from the world of journalism was paramount for both British and American intelligence agencies during the Cold War but never more important than the realm of media as

John le Carre’s 1977 novel The Honourable Schoolboy opens with a motley group of reporters carousing in an Indochina watering hole, passing time between writing and filing stories. All hold

Not long ago, Netflix introduced a limited series called The Chair, a sardonic look at the nature of current campus politics in the realm of higher learning. Chiseled from various

The monument erected in Wharton State Forest to the Mexican aviator Emilio Carranza, whose plane crashed at the site in 1928, stands as a tribute and reminder of the goodwill

The report from the Weather Bureau that arrived early on the morning of July 12, 1928 at New York’s Roosevelt Field identified that the day would be partly cloudy to

Emilio Carranza is the 22-year-old aviator who, in the early hours of June 12, 1928, fell short of tying the second longest nonstop flight record on a goodwill journey from

In June 1928, the New York Times reported that Emilio Carranza, the aviator who was about to undertake a goodwill nonstop flight from Mexico City to Washington DC in the

If, by the end of 1927, Emilio Carranza remained in the shadow of the aviation achievements set by Charles Lindbergh, the following year brought hope that one flight could at