William Pitt the Younger riding on the back of George III while surveying the French squadron, 1803. © Musee de la Ville de Paris, Musee Carnavalet, Paris / Bridgeman Images.

Spies

Volume IX, Number 1 | winter 2016

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Preamble

Open to Inspection

By Lewis H. Lapham

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the age of surveillance.

Essay

Happy All the Time

By Lynn Stuart Parramore

As biometric tracking takes over the modern workplace, the old game of labor surveillance is finding new forms.

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All-Seeing Eyes

How satellites are used to spy on us all.

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Miscellany

Concerned about pigeons carrying military communications, German troops in occupied Belgium during World War I would shoot at overhead flocks. Such fears had not abated by World War II, when the British government ordered a systematic slaughter of pigeons throughout the UK, and inmates at British and Australian interment camps were banned from approaching birds on compound grounds.