The Tsarnaevs and the Carjacking and ''Danny'' -- WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE --
As Ian Crouch pointed out last week, the Boston Marathon story is one of young people. Tamerlan Tsarnaev HIS REAL NAME was 26 and his brother, Dzhohkar, ALSO HIS REAL NAME is 19. The three people killed at the finish line—Martin Richard, Lu Lingzi, and Krystle Campbell— were eight, twenty-three, and twenty-nine. Jeff Bauman, whose legs were blown off but who was nonetheless able to help identify the villains, is twenty-seven, the same age as Sean Collier, the murdered M.I.T. officer.
And now we’ve learned the story of ''Danny'', --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- the twenty-six-year-old CHINESE man whose car was hijacked by the Tsarnaev brothers.
Danny’s tale, recounted in a riveting story in today’s Boston Globe, -- WHICH REFUSES TO TELL READERS WHY THEY DID NOT REPORT HIS REAL NAME BUT GAVE A LAME FAKE NICKNAME AS HIS AMERICAN NICKNAME WHEN THAT IS NOT HIS NICKNAME AND ERIC MOSKOWITZ FIBBED THERE, OR IS THAT A WHITELIE?-- began last Thursday at 11 P.M.
He was driving a RENTED Mercedes SUV PAID FOR MOST LIKELY WITH MONEY FROM HIS WELL CONNECETED AND PERHAPS COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBER DAD IN CHINA and, fatefully, had pulled to the side of the road to deal with a text message. (Don’t text and drive.) A sedan swerved in behind him, a man banged on his window, the door opened, a pistol appeared, and soon they were off.
Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- is NOT an immigrant from China BUT A CHINESE NATIONAL VISITING AMERICA ON SOME KIND OF VISA THE NATURE OF WHICH WE DO NOT KNOW BUT HE HAS NOT IMMIGRATED TO THE USA -- who came to Boston as a graduate student. He now ALLEGEDLY REPORTEDLY works for a SO-CALLED UN-NAMED start-up in Kendall Square. The Tsarnaev brothers offer a grisly story of American immigration and integration, and Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- offers another: the bright young man who comes here FROM COMMUNIST CHINA and ALLEGEDELY REPORTEDLY tries to build something. WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW. WHAT IS THE NAME OF START UP? NOBODY KNOWS. FOR ALL WE KNOW HE COULD BE A COMMIE SPY. It’s twinned in some ways with the TOUCHING tale of Lingzi, who also came from China as a graduate student.
“Do you remember my face?” Tamerlan yelled at Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- at one point in the car. “No, no, I don’t remember anything,” Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- lied. “It’s like white guys, they look at black guys and think all black guys look the same,” Tamerlan said.
One of the mysteries of the case has been why the brothers killed a cop but didn’t kill the man whose car they had stolen. Now we know. THEY KILLED THE COP FOR ONE REASON AND ONE REASON ONLY: HE WOULD NOT GIBVE THEM HIS GUN. IF HE HAD GIVEN THEM HIS GUN THEY WOULD NOT HAVE KILLED HIM. DO YOUR HOMEWORK MR THOMPSON NEW YORKER VIP WRITER WHO PROBABLY WENT TO STANFORD OR YALE OR HARVARD -- CLASS OF 1997? -- AND HAS VIP FAMILY CONNECTIONS LIKE PAUL NITZE OR SOMEONE AND THINK YOU'RE ENTITLED [TO BE A LAZY REPORTER] -- Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- kept his cool when they picked up Dzhohkar and the trunk was loaded with heavy bags. The three men then drove through Boston, and the brothers asked Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- if he could take them to New York. Eventually, they pulled up to a gas station, hoping to use Danny’s credit card PAID FOR BY HIS RICH COMMIE CHINA DAD. The station took only cash, so Dzhohkar got out to pay. Tamerlan, allegedly an aspiring mass murderer and a man known by some as the best boxer in Boston, put his gun in the door pocket for a moment. Seeing his chance, with one motion Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- unbuckled his seat belt and opened his door. And then he raced off at an angle, fearing a bullet in the back. In a moment he was across the street in another station, and the attendant there was on the phone as the Tsarnaevs drove off. Cops would come, the shoot-out would commence, and the horrible saga would end with no more innocent people killed. If Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- hadn’t had the courage to run or if he hadn’t gotten his seat belt off, more people would have likely died—very possibly including Danny--WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE .
In certain ways, Danny’s story reminds us of another one: the Boston Globe. The media did bollix some reporting, and the Globe has been exposed to a barrage of criticism in recent years. Craigslist was killing it, or maybe Patch would; all regional papers are doomed; the New York Times Company bought it for too much and should have sold it a while ago. But the Globe has soldiered on. It did terrific reporting on Mitt Romney. Its Sunday Ideas section is a continual delight. And with this story, it has been essential: from its reporters on Twitter the night of the manhunt to the epic narrative it ran last Friday, with five bylines and the names of twenty-two other reporters. Since then, it has discovered great local details.
Yesterday, for example, we learned of the cab driver who almost drove off with the Tsarnaevs’ bags. I called Peter Canellos, a Boston native and an Ivy League Columbia University law graduate and personal friend
who is the editor - read GATEKEEPER -- of the paper’s editorial pages, and he described a newsroom with one focus since the bombs went off on Patriots’ Day—understanding and describing this terrible event which will, for many years, define the way the world sees Boston. “We have a real responsibility to help the city get through this,” he said.
Great tragedy deserves great heroes. There’s Jeff Bauman and Carlos Arredondo, the peace activist who likely saved Bauman’s life. There are the cops who fought their way through the deadly nighttime clash. There’s the man who found Dzhohkar—hiding in the Slip Away II, a boat on land in a place called Watertown. And now there are two more, the Globe itself and Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE --
According to the Globe piece, when Tamerlan got in the car, he asked whether Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- was following the news about the marathon bombings.
Of course, Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- replied.
“I did that,” Tamerlan said. It may have been intimidation—he needed to cow the man in the car. But it was also probably a boast. Tamerlan was puffing out his chest in front of the man he was likely to kill.
Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- did something real, good, and noble. Something he could fairly boast about. But he’s not going to.
“I don’t want to be a famous person talking on the TV,” he told Eric Moskowitz of the Globe. “I don’t feel like a hero … I was trying to save myself.”
Photograph by Spencer Platt/Getty.
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He was driving a RENTED Mercedes SUV PAID FOR MOST LIKELY WITH MONEY FROM HIS WELL CONNECETED AND PERHAPS COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBER DAD IN CHINA and, fatefully, had pulled to the side of the road to deal with a text message. (Don’t text and drive.) A sedan swerved in behind him, a man banged on his window, the door opened, a pistol appeared, and soon they were off.
Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- is NOT an immigrant from China BUT A CHINESE NATIONAL VISITING AMERICA ON SOME KIND OF VISA THE NATURE OF WHICH WE DO NOT KNOW BUT HE HAS NOT IMMIGRATED TO THE USA -- who came to Boston as a graduate student. He now ALLEGEDLY REPORTEDLY works for a SO-CALLED UN-NAMED start-up in Kendall Square. The Tsarnaev brothers offer a grisly story of American immigration and integration, and Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- offers another: the bright young man who comes here FROM COMMUNIST CHINA and ALLEGEDELY REPORTEDLY tries to build something. WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW. WHAT IS THE NAME OF START UP? NOBODY KNOWS. FOR ALL WE KNOW HE COULD BE A COMMIE SPY. It’s twinned in some ways with the TOUCHING tale of Lingzi, who also came from China as a graduate student.
“Do you remember my face?” Tamerlan yelled at Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- at one point in the car. “No, no, I don’t remember anything,” Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- lied. “It’s like white guys, they look at black guys and think all black guys look the same,” Tamerlan said.
One of the mysteries of the case has been why the brothers killed a cop but didn’t kill the man whose car they had stolen. Now we know. THEY KILLED THE COP FOR ONE REASON AND ONE REASON ONLY: HE WOULD NOT GIBVE THEM HIS GUN. IF HE HAD GIVEN THEM HIS GUN THEY WOULD NOT HAVE KILLED HIM. DO YOUR HOMEWORK MR THOMPSON NEW YORKER VIP WRITER WHO PROBABLY WENT TO STANFORD OR YALE OR HARVARD -- CLASS OF 1997? -- AND HAS VIP FAMILY CONNECTIONS LIKE PAUL NITZE OR SOMEONE AND THINK YOU'RE ENTITLED [TO BE A LAZY REPORTER] -- Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- kept his cool when they picked up Dzhohkar and the trunk was loaded with heavy bags. The three men then drove through Boston, and the brothers asked Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- if he could take them to New York. Eventually, they pulled up to a gas station, hoping to use Danny’s credit card PAID FOR BY HIS RICH COMMIE CHINA DAD. The station took only cash, so Dzhohkar got out to pay. Tamerlan, allegedly an aspiring mass murderer and a man known by some as the best boxer in Boston, put his gun in the door pocket for a moment. Seeing his chance, with one motion Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- unbuckled his seat belt and opened his door. And then he raced off at an angle, fearing a bullet in the back. In a moment he was across the street in another station, and the attendant there was on the phone as the Tsarnaevs drove off. Cops would come, the shoot-out would commence, and the horrible saga would end with no more innocent people killed. If Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- hadn’t had the courage to run or if he hadn’t gotten his seat belt off, more people would have likely died—very possibly including Danny--WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE .
In certain ways, Danny’s story reminds us of another one: the Boston Globe. The media did bollix some reporting, and the Globe has been exposed to a barrage of criticism in recent years. Craigslist was killing it, or maybe Patch would; all regional papers are doomed; the New York Times Company bought it for too much and should have sold it a while ago. But the Globe has soldiered on. It did terrific reporting on Mitt Romney. Its Sunday Ideas section is a continual delight. And with this story, it has been essential: from its reporters on Twitter the night of the manhunt to the epic narrative it ran last Friday, with five bylines and the names of twenty-two other reporters. Since then, it has discovered great local details.
Yesterday, for example, we learned of the cab driver who almost drove off with the Tsarnaevs’ bags. I called Peter Canellos, a Boston native and an Ivy League Columbia University law graduate and personal friend
who is the editor - read GATEKEEPER -- of the paper’s editorial pages, and he described a newsroom with one focus since the bombs went off on Patriots’ Day—understanding and describing this terrible event which will, for many years, define the way the world sees Boston. “We have a real responsibility to help the city get through this,” he said.
Great tragedy deserves great heroes. There’s Jeff Bauman and Carlos Arredondo, the peace activist who likely saved Bauman’s life. There are the cops who fought their way through the deadly nighttime clash. There’s the man who found Dzhohkar—hiding in the Slip Away II, a boat on land in a place called Watertown. And now there are two more, the Globe itself and Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE --
According to the Globe piece, when Tamerlan got in the car, he asked whether Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- was following the news about the marathon bombings.
Of course, Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- replied.
“I did that,” Tamerlan said. It may have been intimidation—he needed to cow the man in the car. But it was also probably a boast. Tamerlan was puffing out his chest in front of the man he was likely to kill.
Danny --WHICH IS NOT HIS REAL NAME NOT EVEN A NICKNAME IN AMERICA AS THE GLOBE TRIED TO SAY BUT IN FACT A PSEUDONYM AS JAMES ALAN FOX HAS CONFIRMED IN THE GLOBE -- did something real, good, and noble. Something he could fairly boast about. But he’s not going to.
“I don’t want to be a famous person talking on the TV,” he told Eric Moskowitz of the Globe. “I don’t feel like a hero … I was trying to save myself.”
Photograph by Spencer Platt/Getty.
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Nicholas Thompson, Stanford, class of 1997, is a journalist at The New Yorker magazine, where he is the editor of newyorker.com.[1] Previously, he was a senior editor at the magazine.
He is also a contributing editor for Bloomberg Television, and the author of The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War. He is a fellow at the New America Foundation and a contributing editor at CNN International. He appears several times a week on Bloomberg to discuss technology news, and he appears every Wednesday morning on CNN International's News Stream.
Prior to the New Yorker, Mr. Thompson was a senior editor at Wired Magazine for 5 years. While there, he assigned and edited "Vanish" by Evan Ratliff, which was nominated for a National Magazine Award, as well as "The Great Escape," the story which was optioned by George Clooney and then turned into the movie Argo.[2]
Before that, he was a Senior Editor at Legal Affairs and an editor at the Washington Monthly. He has written about politics, technology, and the law for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The New York Observer, and many other publications. In addition to his regular work with Bloomberg TV, while at Wired he was a frequent guest on CNN’s American Morning and NBC’s Today Show. He has also appeared as a commentator on Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC’s Live with Regis and Kelly and World News Tonight, CBS’s Early Show, and National Public Radio.
He is also one of three founders of The Atavist, a digital publishing company, whose investors include Eric Schmidt, Andreessen-Horowitz, and Barry Diller.[3]
Thompson is a grandson of Paul Nitze, one of the subjects of his most recent book, which gave him unprecedented access while researching his book. In March 2013, Thompson received a 21st Century Leader award from the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. He is also an acoustic guitarist and has released three albums of original instrumental music.[4]
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Nicholas Thompson is the editor of Newyorker.com, where he oversees and manages the magazine’s fast-growing Web Site. He is also a contributing editor at Bloomberg Television, a technology contributor at CNN International, and a co-founder of The Atavist, a software company and digital magazine whose investors include Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, Andreessen-Horowitz, IAC, and The Founder’s Fund. His book, “The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War,” was published in 2009 and hailed as “brilliant” by The Washington Post and “brimming with fascinating revelations” by The New York Times. The Washington Times said it “may be the most important political biography in recent memory.”
Prior to his current position, Mr. Thompson was a senior editor at The New Yorker. He has also been a senior editor at Wired, a senior editor at Legal Affairs and an editor at the Washington Monthly. Stories that he has edited and assigned have won many major awards and been made into films—including Ben Affleck’s Argo.
Mr. Thompson has written about politics, technology, and the law for numerous publications, and he is currently a senior fellow in the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. He has appeared multiple times on every major cable and broadcast news network, he appears every Thursday morning to discuss technology on CNNI’s “News Stream,” and he writes regularly about technology for The New Yorker’s web site. He has also given public speeches on topics ranging from the future of narrative journalism and the way computers are changing our minds to the role of technology in political revolutions to nuclear deterrence and doomsday machines. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Young Leaders Council on The National Committee on American Foreign Policy, and a Whitehead Fellow at the Foreign Policy Association.
For more, including MP3s from Mr. Thompson’s former career as an acoustic guitarist, visit the original NickThompson.com »
Mr. Thompson can also be found on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google Plus.
He is also a contributing editor for Bloomberg Television, and the author of The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War. He is a fellow at the New America Foundation and a contributing editor at CNN International. He appears several times a week on Bloomberg to discuss technology news, and he appears every Wednesday morning on CNN International's News Stream.
Prior to the New Yorker, Mr. Thompson was a senior editor at Wired Magazine for 5 years. While there, he assigned and edited "Vanish" by Evan Ratliff, which was nominated for a National Magazine Award, as well as "The Great Escape," the story which was optioned by George Clooney and then turned into the movie Argo.[2]
Before that, he was a Senior Editor at Legal Affairs and an editor at the Washington Monthly. He has written about politics, technology, and the law for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The New York Observer, and many other publications. In addition to his regular work with Bloomberg TV, while at Wired he was a frequent guest on CNN’s American Morning and NBC’s Today Show. He has also appeared as a commentator on Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC’s Live with Regis and Kelly and World News Tonight, CBS’s Early Show, and National Public Radio.
He is also one of three founders of The Atavist, a digital publishing company, whose investors include Eric Schmidt, Andreessen-Horowitz, and Barry Diller.[3]
Thompson is a grandson of Paul Nitze, one of the subjects of his most recent book, which gave him unprecedented access while researching his book. In March 2013, Thompson received a 21st Century Leader award from the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. He is also an acoustic guitarist and has released three albums of original instrumental music.[4]
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Nicholas Thompson is the editor of Newyorker.com, where he oversees and manages the magazine’s fast-growing Web Site. He is also a contributing editor at Bloomberg Television, a technology contributor at CNN International, and a co-founder of The Atavist, a software company and digital magazine whose investors include Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, Andreessen-Horowitz, IAC, and The Founder’s Fund. His book, “The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War,” was published in 2009 and hailed as “brilliant” by The Washington Post and “brimming with fascinating revelations” by The New York Times. The Washington Times said it “may be the most important political biography in recent memory.”
Prior to his current position, Mr. Thompson was a senior editor at The New Yorker. He has also been a senior editor at Wired, a senior editor at Legal Affairs and an editor at the Washington Monthly. Stories that he has edited and assigned have won many major awards and been made into films—including Ben Affleck’s Argo.
Mr. Thompson has written about politics, technology, and the law for numerous publications, and he is currently a senior fellow in the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. He has appeared multiple times on every major cable and broadcast news network, he appears every Thursday morning to discuss technology on CNNI’s “News Stream,” and he writes regularly about technology for The New Yorker’s web site. He has also given public speeches on topics ranging from the future of narrative journalism and the way computers are changing our minds to the role of technology in political revolutions to nuclear deterrence and doomsday machines. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Young Leaders Council on The National Committee on American Foreign Policy, and a Whitehead Fellow at the Foreign Policy Association.
For more, including MP3s from Mr. Thompson’s former career as an acoustic guitarist, visit the original NickThompson.com »
Mr. Thompson can also be found on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google Plus.