{"id":28,"date":"2026-05-21T15:39:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2026-05-21T15:39:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:39:04","slug":"weve-been-living-in-1984-since-1921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve Been Living in \u20181984\u2019 Since 1921"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article>\n<header>\n<div>\n<ul><li>Politics<\/li><li>June 25, 2014<\/li><\/ul><h1>We\u2019ve Been Living in \u20181984\u2019 Since 1921<\/h1><h1>We\u2019ve Been Living in \u20181984\u2019 Since 1921<\/h1><h2><p>That was when the Bureau of Investigation\u2014the forerunner of today\u2019s FBI\u2014first opened a file on the magazine.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=25\">Crypto and AI-Funded Super PACs Are Metastasizing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<time>June 25, 2014<\/time>\n<div>\n<p><em>This is an excerpt from the new e-book <\/em>Surveillance Nation: Critical Reflections on Privacy and Its Threats<em>, a fascinating and timeless alternative history on the rise of the surveillance state. The e-book is now available on tablets, smartphones and computers\u2014download yours today.<\/em>\n<p>A healthy democracy demands transparency from its government and privacy for its citizenry. Only if we know what our government is up to can we exercise our responsibility as citizens to ratify or veto their actions at the ballot box. And only if we can be assured that our conversations are not being monitored by government officials will we have the space to develop our critical faculties, pursue intimate associations, try out new political ideas and flourish as human beings.\n<p>However, too many government officials, even in democratic states, tend to favor secrecy for their own actions and transparency from the citizenry. When asked what measures they are employing that might threaten our privacy, officials have long responded with some version of \u201cWe can\u2019t tell you, of course\u2026 but trust us.\u201d And when facing charges that they have violated the privacy of those they represent, the government invariably argue\u2019s for the narrowest definitions of privacy (your metadata isn\u2019t private) and the broadest justifications for invading it (\u201cfighting terrorism\u201d generally does the trick).\n<p>Because democracy depends on government transparency and personal privacy, but our representatives too often prefer the opposite, citizens, civil society and the press must be vigilant about privacy and its threats. Absent popular resistance, the tendency of government to favor secrecy and access to its citizens\u2019 most intimate information will undermine the very foundations of democracy. For its entire existence, <em>The Nation<\/em> has exercised that watchdog role for the country with courage, conviction and persistence. This volume, consisting of essays, investigations, editorials and columns dating from 1931 to 2014, illustrates the critical importance of the Fourth Estate in checking the desires of the surveillance state.\n<p>Edward Snowden\u2019s in June 2013 disclosures of the National Security Agency\u2019s vast, global spying network are only the latest in a series of revelations with a common theme: security and intelligence agencies have an omnivorous appetite for information about all of us. Even if they act entirely in good faith, their job description is to provide intelligence (CIA), to investigate crime (FBI) or to maintain security (NSA)\u2014not to protect civil liberties. So, even when acting from the best of motives, they will be inclined to discount privacy concerns and overestimate security needs. And often, of course, they don\u2019t act from the best of motives. They may be driven by partisan concerns, the desire to entrench their own authority, or paranoia about \u201cthe enemy\u201d\u2014or, as in the case of the nation\u2019s most infamous law enforcement officer, J. Edgar Hoover, all of the above.\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<span><span>&#8220;swipe left below to view more authors&#8221;<\/span>Swipe \u2192<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Thomas Massie\u2019s Defeat Could Come Back to Haunt Trump <\/span>\n\n                Thomas Massie\u2019s Defeat Could Come Back to Haunt Trump \n            \n<\/h3>\n<p>\nJeet Heer <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Capitalism\u2019s Long Revolution <\/span>\n\n                Capitalism\u2019s Long Revolution \n            \n<\/h3>\n<p>\nBooks &amp; the Arts\n<span>\n                            \/\n                        <\/span>\nCorey Robin <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Chud the Builder and America\u2019s Tradition of White Racial Terror<\/span>\n\n                Chud the Builder and America\u2019s Tradition of White Racial Terror\n            \n<\/h3>\n<p>\nKali Holloway <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Trump Just Created a White Grievance Reparations Fund<\/span>\n\n                Trump Just Created a White Grievance Reparations Fund\n            \n<\/h3>\n<p>\nElie Mystal <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>The history of political spying and unwarranted incursions on privacy is a long and troubling one. Hoover got his start, as a young lawyer just out of law school, in the Radical Alien Division of the Justice Department. There, he helped orchestrate the infamous Palmer Raids of 1919-20 after a series of bombs exploded throughout the country, one of them tearing the front off the home of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Rather than investigate the crimes and bring the specific perpetrators to justice, the government used immigration authorities to round up thousands of \u201cusual suspects,\u201d almost entirely on grounds of affiliation with anarchists or communists, interrogated them brutally for \u201cintelligence,\u201d and ultimately sought to deport many of them. None of the bombers were brought to justice.\n<p>Hoover went on from that \u201csuccess\u201d to found what became the FBI, and to lead it for fifty years. McCarthyism gave him a cause, and his methods have been well documented\u2014infiltration, disruption, threats to ruin reputations, sowing distrust and maintaining files on as many of his critics\/opponents as possible. In the 1970s, the Church Committee revealed that such measures were not confined to the FBI but infected the NSA, the CIA, and the entire US intelligence apparatus. Reforms followed, but as the post-9\/11 era has shown, those reforms have not proved up to the task of reining in intelligence and law enforcement agencies armed with new technology, massive appropriations and an impossible mandate to prevent all terrorist attacks. In recent years, technological developments have made it possible for the NSA to describe its \u201ccollection posture\u201d as \u201cCollect it All,\u201d \u201cProcess it All,\u201d \u201cExploit it All,\u201d \u201cPartner it All,\u201d \u201cSniff it All\u201d and, ultimately, \u201cKnow it All.\u201d\n<p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27\" height=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e37aa2c31bc30ed4f5fa4fb7b57c2bd8.jpg\" width=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e37aa2c31bc30ed4f5fa4fb7b57c2bd8.jpg 615w, https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e37aa2c31bc30ed4f5fa4fb7b57c2bd8-300x98.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/figure>\nThe pages that follow feature remarkable contributions from canaries in the coal mine, warning of the threats to come. They include a prescient article from 1966, titled \u201cThe Computer vs. the Bill of Rights,\u201d on the threat that computers pose to our privacy. The author, Anthony Prisendorf, notes that at the time, there were as many as 30,000 computers in the United States, and that a proposed National Data Center might empower the government to know a great deal about our private lives from our data. Sound familiar? Frank Donner writes in 1978 that \u201cthe primary contemporary candidate for expanded intelligence operations is terrorism.\u201d Fred Cook provides the country\u2019s first clear-eyed critical assessment of the FBI\u2014in 1958. Herman Schwarz warns that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, passed in 1978 to rein in the intelligence agencies after the Church Committee\u2019s revelations, is not working\u2014in 1983. In 1997, Christian Parenti warns of technology\u2019s empowerment of the police to track our every move at increasingly low cost. In 2006, seven years before Edward Snowden\u2019s revelations confirmed it, Tim Shorrock writes of the telecommunications companies\u2019 cooperation with the NSA in mass data collection. Time and again, writers for <em>The Nation<\/em> identified threats to privacy and liberty long before they were acknowledged by the mainstream media and the broader public.\n<p>This volume, then, offers a rare contemporaneous account of the growth of the surveillance state, from the standpoint of a vigilant journal dedicated to keeping watch on the watchers. Time and again, <em>Nation<\/em> writers warn the citizenry that they are allowing their liberties to be taken away by stealth, by technology and by a failure to demand accountability. Highlights include a fascinating review of 1984 by Diana Trilling; critiques of wiretapping by Alan Westin, Edward Long and Athan Theoharis; and Laura Flanders\u2019s early expos\u00e9 on the expansive possibilities of Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act. With the hindsight of history, it is easy to see that the warnings were well grounded. But what is remarkable is how spot-on and clear-eyed so many writers were even amid the panics or crises that had led to the latest extension of the state\u2019s surveillance apparatus that they were exposing, analyzing and critiquing.\n<p>The largest single contribution to the volume is a remarkable account of the history of <em>The Nation<\/em> itself, as told through the lens of the FBI, which, true to form, maintained a 2,000-plus-page file on <em>The Nation<\/em>. The magazine obtained the file under the Freedom of Information Act, and in 1986, Penn Kimball drew on those files to portray the FBI\u2019s obsession with the magazine that was in turn obsessed with it.\n<p>Surveillance is, of course, here to stay. It is a necessary and appropriate tool of the state. But it is also an easily abused tool. If we want to preserve the liberties that are the foundation of a healthy democracy, we must keep our eye on them as they keep our eye on us. No journal has done that job as well and consistently and for as long as <em>The Nation<\/em>.\n<p><em>Download the new e-book<\/em> Surveillance Nation: Critical Reflections on Privacy and Its Threats<em>, a fascinating and timeless alternative history on the rise of the surveillance state, to read it instantly on your tablet, e-reader, smartphone or computer.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=23\">Chud the Builder and America\u2019s Tradition of White Racial Terror<\/a><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<footer>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\n                Submit a correction\n            \n<\/li>\n<li>\n\n                Send a letter to the editor\n            \n<\/li>\n<li>\n\n                Reprints &amp; permissions\n            \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2><i><span>Your support makes stories like this possible<\/span><\/i><\/h2>\n<p><span>From illegal war on Iran to an inhumane fuel blockade of Cuba, from AI weapons to crypto corruption, this is a time of staggering chaos, cruelty, and violence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Unlike other publications that parrot the views of authoritarians, billionaires, and corporations, <\/span><i><span>The Nation <\/span><\/i><span>publishes stories that hold the powerful to account and center the communities too often denied a voice in the national media\u2014stories like the one you\u2019ve just read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Each day, our journalism cuts through lies and distortions, contextualizes the developments reshaping politics around the globe, and advances progressive ideas that oxygenate our movements and instigate change in the halls of power.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This independent journalism is only possible with the support of our readers. 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