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  Esquire | July 2011

  Since September 11, 2001, we have finely honed our fear of the other. But the truth is, the overwhelming majority of our terrorism has always been homegrown. And it is times like these — times of anger and disaffection — when we turn on ourselves, and kill.

• My Memories of The National

  by Charles P. Pierce + Follow

  Grantland | June 2011

  One of the stars of the "Main Event" recalls the greatest job he ever had.

• The Man. Amen.

  by Charles P. Pierce + Follow

  GQ | April 1997

  In the Book of Saint Earl of the Woods, let us now turn to the next chapter, verse 1997, in which the presumed messiah—halo, swoosh and all—is revealed to be, gasp! a 21-year-old kid.