The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

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Free Speech Gone Rogue

By now, Gentle Reader, you understand the power of information.

For instance, you probably know that Israel was able to remotely silence Syria's radar defense grid, allowing Israeli jets to slip unnoticed into Syrian airspace to take out a nuclear reactor the Syrians were building with North Korea's help.

No doubt you also are aware that China has used Google to spy on its domestic human-rights activists, and that Iran's uranium-enrichment centrifuges were crippled last month by a powerful computer virus likely planted by a foreign government.

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