He was chairman of the academic advisory committee for the PBS television series œThe Pacific Century

He was chairman of the academic advisory committee for the PBS television series œThe Pacific Century,

and he played a prominent role in the PBS œFrontline documentary œLosing the MBT SPORT SHOES with

Japan. Both won Emmy awards. His most recent books are Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of

American Empire (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000) and The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy,

and the End of the Republic, which was published by Metropolitan in January 2004. Blowback won the 2001

American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation.

International human rights attorney and author of the blog No Comment at Harpers.org, The Other Scott

Horton (no relation), discusses the revolution within the form of American government that has occurred

in the last six years in the name of the all powerful “Unitary Executive”: Kidnapping, torture,

massive domestic wiretapping, the replacement of MBT SPORT SHOES attorneys who don’t do a good enough

job prosecuting Democrats, and why Goerge Washington’s system was better.