The Shadowland Journal

Verified Library of Congress The first thing I ever wrote for The Washington Post was a little chapter about statues in a 1975 guidebook to D.C. that is now long out of print, and subs...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2020/06/those-green-streaked-men-in-parks-are.html

Beginning in November 2018 and well into 2019, virtually every weekend protests taking place in the name of the gilets jaunes were staged around the country and, especially in Paris, turned int...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2020/06/antifa-casseurs-anarchists-neo-nazis.html

From Peter Beard to Cold war spies, the French resistance, and Sir Richard Francis Burton—some of my "long reads" of recent years. LOCKDOWN WEEKEND READING: FORAYS INTO FRIENDSHIPS AND HIST...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2020/04/weekend-reading-forays-into-friendships.html

This is the uncorrected draft of a piece published by Rolling Stone in 1990 which appears to be unavailable on the magazine's site, at least at the moment. THE ELEPHANT WARS By Christoph...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2020/04/killing-men-to-save-elephants-original.html

They were the most important literary couple of their generation. Joan lives on, an icon. John should be remembered as well. JOAN DIDION'S CALIFORNIA, JOHN GREGORY DUNNE'S 'SPECTATOR PATRIOTI...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2020/04/essays-about-joan-didions-california.html

This piece was published originally as a Shadowland column for Newsweek online, Oct. 11, 2005, but I cannot find a current link for it, so am posting the text from my hard drive: SPECTATOR PATR...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2020/04/john-gregory-dunne-magical-thinking-and.html

I've mostly been editing  stories by our great world news team. (If you're not a Daily Beast member, sign up!) But I did write one pretty good essay. FROM BC (BEFORE COVID-19) TO THE ROARING...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2020/03/from-bc-before-covid-19-to-roaring-2020s.html

FROM THE ATLANTIC -  https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share COVID-19 is already reported to hav...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2020/02/some-useful-coronavirus-covid2019.html

Recent articles, from the assassination of Soleimani to the mysterious murder of JFK's mistress. AFFAIRS OF STATE: FROM THE MURDER OF JFK'S MISTRESS TO THE ASSASSINATION OF SOLEIMANI THE...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2020/01/affairs-of-state.html

Articles on Afghanistan, NATO, and Nikki Haley's emails, too. I've been looking at Trump's instinct to pull the plug on U.S. allies One of my favorite things about the holiday season in Pa...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2019/12/ive-been-looking-at-trumps-instinct-to.html

Here's hoping your holidays are filled with amazement and delight. EVERY DAY HAS A NEW DAWN. FROM PARIS WISHING YOU HOLIDAYS FULL OF AMAZEMENT AND DELIGHT Copyright © 2019 Christophe...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2019/12/from-paris-on-christmas-eve-morning.html

The actions we write about most often are reactions to what came before, but the links may be obscured by fictionalized narratives. NOTES ON CAUSE AND EFFECT: TRUMP, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, VENICE, ...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2019/11/notes-on-cause-and-effect-when-looking.html

We were there. This is what we saw—and perhaps what we should have seen. But who could have predicted Trump? THE BERLIN WALL FELL OVER A WEEKEND, 30 YEARS LATER WE'RE STILL TRYING TO COPE W...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-berlin-wall-fell-over-weekend-30.html

One column, one video, and some interesting articles by colleagues TRUMP'S SYRIAN OIL SHAKEDOWN, PLUS NEWS OF RUSSIA, SPIES, ISIS, AND MORE Good morning USA, and welcome back to Standard Ti...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2019/11/trumps-syrian-oil-shakedown-plus-news.html

Big Bad Baghdadi is dead, and congratulations are in order for all those who made the mission possible—possibly not including President Trump. BAGGING ABU BAKR AL-BAGHDADI A walk thro...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2019/10/bagging-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi.html

Trump's betrayal of the Kurds who fought ISIS was long anticipated but finally came in a murderous moment of presidential caprice.  NOTES AND COMMENTARY ON THE BETRAYAL OF THE KURDS Greet...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2019/10/notes-and-commentary-on-kurdish-crisis.html

In 2003 I was asked to speak at Clemson University, James Dickey's alma mater, about his work as a poet and mine as a journalist. The speech was adapted afterward into this essay published by th...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2019/10/firebombings-from-my-fathers-wars-to.html

Three weeks ago I was talking with Brian Williams off camera on The 11th Hour about witnessing the death of democracy in Europe and the United States. He asked me to repeat my thoughts on air: a ...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2019/10/three-weeks-ago-i-talked-about-death-of.html

The Greta Thunberg meltdown (with which I sympathize), the Zelensky call (with which I don't), the Khashoggi anniversary. The madness is endless. MOB-SPEAK AND MURDERS: NORMALIZING MAYHEM? ...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2019/10/from-mob-speak-to-murders-are-we.html

The attack on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities was an act of war, but Trump and the Saudis don't want to say so. At least not yet. There are reasons. TO WAR OR NOT TO WAR Back in Paris ... Amo...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2019/09/to-war-or-not-to-war.html

What a long, troubling week. SOME DISTURBING PREDICTIONS ABOUT OIL, WAR, AND DEMOCRACY What a long, troubling week. It began with Trump's tweets about Camp David accords with the Taliban th...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2019/09/some-disturbing-predictions-about-oil.html

Writing about the Taliban, Talking about Boris Johnson (written before the Camp David fiasco) Thanks to Sami Yousafzai and Erin Banco, we were able to take a long hard look at the "peace" ...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2019/09/writing-about-trump-and-taliban-talking.html

I began the week in Paris writing about Berthe Morisot, and ended it in New York talking and writing about Trump and the G7. MY RECENT ARTICLES AND TV APPEARANCES: FROM IMPRESSIONISTS TO TRU...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2019/09/my-recent-articles-columns-and.html

MY BIRTHDAY WEEK: WRITING ABOUT MURDERS, TALKING ABOUT GUNS AND IRAN Wrote this with Anna Nemtsova: HOMICIDAL THE CAR MURDERS: A CRITICAL COLD CASE IN THE NEW COLD WAR EVIDENCE MO...

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2019/09/my-birthday-week-writing-about-murders.html

From Christopher Dickey, the author of "Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South" and "Securing the City," this site provides updates and footnotes on history, espionage, terrorism, fanaticism, policing and counterinsurgency linked to Dickey's columns for The Daily Beast and his other writings; also, occasional dialogues, diatribes, and contributions from friends.

http://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2019/08/commentary-on-msnbc-trump-should-be.html