by Charles Mudede JOANNE DIFUCCIA/GETTY
The mistake that many liberals in our city make is to believe that we are somehow detached from the hard stuff of Empire. We are not. We are, in fact, very much in the thick of it. If you drive 40 minutes south, you will reach a major military base; take a short and refreshing ferry ride west, and you cross waters with submarines that can flatten whole cities; drive 40 minutes north, and you will reach a naval station with six destroyers. The Blue Angels a
The mistake that many liberals in our city make is to believe that we are somehow detached from the hard stuff of Empire. We are not. We are, in fact, very much in the thick of it. If you drive 40 minutes south, you will reach a major military base; take a short and refreshing ferry ride west, and you cross waters with submarines that can flatten whole cities; drive 40 minutes north, and you will reach a naval station with six destroyers. The Blue Angels a