I had hoped to get a question in to Perkins, but wasn’t called upon. In Confessions he writes that when he applied for the job at Charles T. Main, a Boston-based consulting and engineering firm that managed infrastructure projects in the developing world, he was vetted by mysterious government employees who worked for the NSA. I have long been under the impression that that agency’s charge is primarily signals intelligence, and that the kind of stuff he was doing falls (or perhaps fell) under the CIA’’s umbrella.

How would one go about getting a copy of your interview to show to a church group interested in social justice? There are many of us out there who try to do social justice education within our religious fellowships. This would be a great one to show.

It is also more convenient.

Nonetheless, people do change.

Maybe the nation can ‘do’ change, as well.

One can hope …

(eCHAN, apparently John Dean hasn’t fallen off the waggin’ … yet. So far, I’ve found him consistently thoughtful and consistently capable of ‘getting it’, remember, he swithched ’sides’ before ’twas fashionable and hasn’t gone back to the old ways. I think it possible fur the human animal to grow and even to change … but as you say ‘time’ will tell, as well as reveal a lot of truth about ALL of us upright [harumph!) apes …
My favorite book on the topic is ‘The Human Race’ by Willie Maykit and Betty Whoant … sadly long out of print and no longer available …)