Author Archives: Fred Reed

Why We Need an Asteroid Strike

Posted on March 16, 2011

Me, I reckon that what we need is an asteroid strike. I …

Say No to Monroe

Posted on April 6, 2009

I strain for words to describe adequately Washington’s policy toward Latin America. …

Old News

Posted on February 9, 2009

The news racket is dead, mummified, and ready for a mausoleum. The …

The Big Muddy

Posted on June 16, 2008

All night it rained in Jocotepec, my small town in Mexico. Rain …

Don’t Sweat the TSA

Posted on May 19, 2008

Has anyone noticed that the various “anti-terror” measures we see everywhere are …

Why Blame Mexico

Posted on March 10, 2008

Mixed Message to Mexico

Get ‘er Done

Posted on January 14, 2008

You need to know about how in 1962 I was a half-wild …

The Unbound West

Posted on September 10, 2007

Today, thunderous matters of cosmic import: why has the West dominated scientific …

Walking Wounded

Posted on January 31, 2005

Old soldiers don’t fade away

Been There, Bombed That

Posted on December 1, 2003

An American revisits the Indochina we “lost.”

Johnny Can’t Add

Posted on June 30, 2003

But Suresh Venktasubramanian can.

Little Boxes Made of Ticky-Tacky

Posted on January 27, 2003

First they homogenized the milk—then the countryside.

They Paved Paradise

Posted on November 18, 2002

The loutishness of Left and Right