Center for Strategic Communication

Never bring a sword to a pen fight?

[ by Charles Cameron — in which I suggest that reality may be more like a river, our understandings more like canals ] . Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, "Moon of Enlightenment" from One Hundred Views of the Moon ** I read a couple of things this morning that...

Warren McCulloch’s lifetime koan

[ by Charles Cameron — from intuitive leap to confirmation in a celebrated paper by neurophysiologist and cybernetician Warren McCulloch ] . As I mentioned in my earlier post, Close reading, Synoptic- and Sembl-style, for parallels, patterns, there are times...

Go or No Go?

[ by Charles Cameron — from the Crimea to jihad, via “perhaps the most famous move in the history of go” ] . As usual, my interest here is not in the geo-polemics of the affair, which I leave to others, but in the formal properties of the...

R2P: Asserting Theory is not = Law

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] At The Bridge, Victor Allen pontificates on R2P (“Responsibility to Protect“) as if it were an established, cardinal point of international  law and not a pet theory of a few years vintage pushed by a small but...