A life in talk radio; Beirut’s port explosion, and the political crisis in Lebanon

September 25, 2020 by

Llewellyn King talks to Jim Bohannon, about talk radio hosting, and to Edward Gabriel, former U.S. ambassador to Morocco, about the Beirut explosion and the political crisis in Lebanon.

The Stateless in America Would Face a Kind of Damnation

Llewellyn King

I have only known one stateless person. You don’t get a medal for it or wear a lapel pin. The stateless are the hapless who live in the shadows, in fear. They don’t know where the next misadventure will come from: It could be deportation, imprisonment or an enslavement of the kind the late Johnny […]

How the Special Relationship Became the Odd Couple

Llewellyn King

Through two world wars, it has been the special relationship: the linkage between the United States and Britain. It is a linkage forged in a common language, a common culture, a common history and a common aspiration to peace and prosperity. The relationship, always strong, was burnished by President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret […]

The Shady, Sometimes Wacky World of State Secrets and Security Clearances

Llewellyn King

Beware: Classified documents don’t always hide state secrets, and security clearances are used as tools of manipulation and vengeance. Before Xerox, if you wanted to keep a copy of something, you had to type it with a carbon sheet backing every page. In 1969, I was commissioned by a long-gone consultancy, the Arctic Company, to […]

The Case for Prescribed Burning: Fighting Fire With Fire

Llewellyn King

Wildfire takes no prisoners, has no mercy, knows no boundaries, respects no nation and is a clear and present danger this and every summer as summers grow drier and hotter. The American West is burning; across Canada there are wildfires; and swaths of France, Spain, Portugal and Greece are ablaze. In 2022, faraway Siberia was […]