... if a threat did not eventuate into an actual danger, it always could have, so preemptive action will always have been right. This is a tautology, but one that does not self-destruct. Instead, in produces self-legitimating affective facts. The production of affective facts rests on the ambiguous empirical...

... of verisimilitude and truthfulness. How can we reconcile fidelity to the facts, fidelity to genre conventions and disciplinary boundaries, fidelity to the people whose lives we write about, and fidelity to received standards of logical rigor, scientific impartiality, or proper conduct? ethnographic truth...