Are Professors Picking the Public’s Pockets?
From his arrival in the U.S. some 25 years ago, Tatsuya Suda deftly cut a path to the upper echelons of academic computer research. Fresh from prestigious Kyoto University, he steadily rose to become a...
View ArticleFrom Modern Albania, A Feudal Tragedy
Give director Joshua Marston credit — he doesn’t take on easy film projects. Marston’s debut feature, 2004’s Maria Full of Grace, was about a Colombian drug mule and her desperate attempts to find her...
View ArticleThe Wars That Really Ended All Wars
“Only the dead have seen the end of war,” philosopher George Santayana wrote in 1905. We may be living in the most peaceful epoch of human history, as Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker has argued,...
View ArticleWho Is the United States at War With? That’s Classified Information
In a major national security speech this spring, President Obama said again and again that the U.S. is at war with “Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their associated forces.” So who exactly are those...
View ArticleHow to Forecast Democracy After a Bloody Civil War
Insurrection can be an expensive business. Without arms, protective gear, and vehicles, the whole enterprise will devolve rather rapidly. To succeed, rebel fighters often need to attract willing...
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