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In the 19th century, following the Enlightenment, the process of secularization seemed to be on a slow but unstoppable roll.  One consequence of this was the development of a view of history, whereby religion in general, Christianity in particular, and above all the Roman Catholic church, assumed the rôle of the enemy of all progress, and prog

In a world of digital intelligence, privacy vs. security, and shifting boundaries, the morality of espionage touches us all.

A new book looks at the men who knew too much—and too little

In an interview with Russia's National Defense magazine last week, the director of that nation's foreign intelligence service reminded us of his penchant for creative fiction.

Knight Bachelor got no insignia with the title

Errol Morris says Henry Kissinger got "cold feet" about a proposed doc project. His remarks came at the Telluride Film Festival.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris unveiled his new documentary The Pigeon Tunnel – about the spy-turned-novelist David Cornwell, aka John le Carré – at the Telluride Film Festival on Friday. Audience buzz afterwards ranked it among Morris’s best work, a canon that includes the classics The Thin Blue Line and Gates of Heaven. Morris said it …

"Relationships like that are not developed out of nothing."

THERE’s talk once more that for many years agents of the British state have been operating at the highest levels of the SNP and the wider Scottish…

Spying carries huge risks — but not everyone’s left languishing in jail.