Penn State’s Frightening Defense
April 26, 2008 | Published by Foreign Policy In Focus
Even as a student, during perhaps the bleakest years of an otherwise dominating half-century of college football, I knew my school was just as likely to be called “Linebacker U” as Penn State. Yet, upon recently returning to my alma mater, I noticed that Beaver Stadium isn’t the only building on campus where a strong defense is revered.
Lessons from Protesting Guantánamo
Wearing orange jumpsuits with black hoods, we knelt in silence on the steps of the Supreme Court to protest the seventh year that prisoners are being held in Guantánamo Bay without habeas corpus rights and subjected to torture.