Tag: Tom Cruise

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Dialectic of the Draft

August 8, 2023

Americans will understand themselves less fantastically if they consider the extent to which the end of the Selective Service System a half century ago gave them permission to put their public selves to sleep.

The Charmed, Doomed Life of Barry Seal

November 15, 2017

Exclusive: Tom Cruise’s portrayal of drug-smuggler-turned-government-informant Barry Seal is a fast-paced visit back to the Reagan era’s shadowy world of the CIA, cocaine and secret wars, writes James DiEugenio.