Scientology plays an outsize role in the cast of new religions that have arisen in the 20th century and survived into the 21st.
There are a lot of reporters who I feel are a lot more courageous and fool-hardy than I am. Maybe at the top I'd put Dexter Filkins. He's an extraordinary man in terms of his nerve and ability to get into dangerous situations and tell the story cogently. He's bringing back real human stories. I admire that.
From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues.
When the price of oil goes up, the entire Texas economy takes a deep breath. Millionaires blossom like rain lilies. News races through the countryside that the money train is pulling into the station. Hop on board!
The ideal 'New Yorker' profile is a person, an interesting person, at a critical point in his life.
Our intelligence community was extremely poorly prepared before 9/11.
