Ultimately, intelligence work comes down to dealing with humanity. After all the calls are intercepted and the missiles counted, the back accounts monitored and the nerve gas canisters located, we still need to look inside the minds, hearts and souls of other human beings. And unlike the mechanical and electronic things of which we are […]

Those who insist that all things are knowable and that men and women act rationally have been on one side of the stadium of mankind for centuries, while the opposing bleachers have been filled by those who insist that even the light of reason casts dark shadows and that man’s nature is never fully knowable. […]