by aelkus | Mar 3, 2013 | Monitor
Thomas Friedman is often the target of intense criticism for overly simplistic takes on international relations, the Middle East, business, and society. But he also should be commended when he does right, and this weekend he used his NYT column to direct his readers...
by aelkus | Feb 27, 2013 | Monitor
What is the relationship between videogames and violence? Popular Science, reviewing a new psychology report, noted the obvious: it’s inderminate. There are two camps of researchers, neither of which can collect enough conclusive evidence to provide strong...
by aelkus | Feb 16, 2013 | Monitor
Are we in a 1914 scenario in East Asia? How often do guerrillas succeed? Did counterterrorism law erode national sovereignty? These are just a few of the important questions that political science has some bearing on. Yet barely a couple months goes by without an...
by aelkus | Feb 11, 2013 | Monitor
Renegade former Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer Christopher Dorner believes himself wronged by his superiors. In his manifesto, he repeatedly emphasizes that he embodies the honor and discipline of the paramilitary institutions he served and “died...
by aelkus | Jan 23, 2013 | Monitor
One of the most useful aspects of Zero Dark Thirty is its dogged focus on the mundane and numerous things that underpin great raids. There are the countless hours of intelligence collection and analysis, some of which is highly dangerous. The deliberations and...
