Agricultural Economics—Without Apology
“On the Backs of Angels,” by Dream Theater:
The new album, titled “A Dramatic Turn of Events,” will be out next Tuesday and is rumored to be a return to the band’s progressive roots. If this single is any indication, the rumor is true.
Princeton’s Anne-Marie Slaughter, in an essay on warfare past, present, and future:
“The great power wars of the twenty-first century will be fought by special forces: specialised in combat against pirates, terrorists and global criminal networks; in focused search and rescue and search and destroy missions; and in civilian protection units capable of disabling but not destroying an enemy. They will be fought by cyber-warriors, skilled in manipulating unmanned weapons and in deterring and responding to system-wide cyber-attacks. And they will be fought in multilateral coalitions aimed at stopping the wars that criminal governments wage against their own people and bringing individual leaders and their coterie of high-level supporters to justice.”