How the Pentagon Snatched Innovation From the Jaws of Defeat

Originally posted at TomDispatch. In the early 1950s, my father ran a gas station on Governors Island, a military base in New York harbor. In those years, it would be my only encounter with the suburbs. And there, for maybe a dime on any Saturday afternoon, I could join the kids from military families at … Continue reading "How the Pentagon Snatched Innovation From the Jaws of Defeat"
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