franz kafka

Love It or Leave It?

Scott Tucker / Truthdig Aug 25, 2013 Journalism is often a form of priestcraft. If human victims are required on the pyramids of sacrifice, a mob of journalists is always ready to slip on priestly robes while reaching for the knives. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Lavabit Founder Caught in Kafkaesque Legal Battle

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 23, 2013 The tech executive who closed his secure email service last month says the Obama administration has created a surveillance state on a scale that has not been seen since the communist witch hunts of the 1950s. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Next Step in Equality: Genderless Bathrooms

Staff / Truthdig Jun 13, 2013 Transgender people face discrimination every time they go to restrooms marked men or women; as the NSA destroys our sense of privacy, perhaps rather than looking to Orwell's "1984," we should brush up on our Kafka; meanwhile, journalist Phyllis Richman responds decades later to a misogynistic letter from a Harvard professor regarding married women pursuing graduate studies. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Data Mining for a New American World

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Apr 4, 2012 I was out of the country only nine days, hardly a blink in time, but time enough, as it happened, for another small, airless room to be added to the American national security labyrinth. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

No Justice in Kafka’s America

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jun 13, 2011 The draconian legal mechanisms that condemn Muslim Americans who speak out publicly about the outrages we commit in the Middle East have left many wasting away in supermax prisons.The tyranny we impose on those held in Guantanamo, Bagram and the secret CIA “black sites” we impose on ourselves. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )