A Prison of Words

March 19, 2009 New York Times Noah Feldman Cambridge, Mass.

Closing Guantánamo

January 18, 2009 EDITORIAL New York Times

Gitmo: A National Disgrace

June 6, 2007 EDITORIAL New York Times

The State of Emergency as the Empire’s Mode of Governance

Jean-Claude Paye (Original to Multitudes 16, March 2004)

The A Brief History of the State of Exception

Giorgio Agamben An excerpt from State of Exception

Guantánamo Limbo

Judith Butler [from the April 1, 2002 issue of the Nation]