This paper is a lightly-footnoted and modestly expanded version of my presentation at the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy Symposium's panel on ExecutiPerez, Antonio FSocial Science Electronic Publishing
“To criticize SDI as being ‘Star Wars’ is like criticizing the Manhattan Project as being ‘Star Wars,’” Pinsker says. “The whole point of both projects was to take theoretical ideas and make them a reality, which eventually both did. It didn't happen overnight with either, and bot...
This issue further necessitates the urgent need for low-cost and acceptable conflict resolution mechanisms. Another traditional policy response is capacity building. One of its directions could be towards the filling up of obvious capacity gaps of public bodies responsible for enforcement and monitoring...
According to the first and still existing draft of Judeo-Christian history, Israel was given its birth certificate and thus legitimacy by the UN Partition Resolution of 29 November 1947. This, too, is nonsense. In the first place, the UN without the consent of the majority of th...
A senior Biden administration official pointed out that, among other things, Russia is running through its liquid reserves and pushing assets toward a war economy in ways that will hurt its social stability. “They have sort of a ticking clock for how long they can sustain the strategy,” sai...
"I never want to go to a war. Peace is just so important." The people who wanted most to fight regretted going into wars and yet the new generation in a sense who hasn't been through a war then, you know, basically says, "I'm going to fight for this thing." And then they get...
Herbert’s world building also includes a rich web ofphilosophyand religion. Paul’s mother Jessica, is a member of the Bene Gesserit, an ancient cult of spice-assisted psychics. Sometimes called “witches” for their mysteriouspowers, the Bene Gesserit have operated as a shadow government for ...
There is enormous opportunity in transforming our energy economy. My son-in-law, energy researcher and inventor Saul Griffith, has drawn a massive Sankey diagram—a map of all the energy sources and uses in the US economy to a resolution better than 1%. Standing next to the map, h...
and the widespread rejection of evolution is a much more complicated problem than many of these front-line practitioners think it is. Solutions to the widespread non-acceptance of evolution must therefore involve not just further resolution of the “religion vs. science” controversy. They must also...
and the widespread rejection of evolution is a much more complicated problem than many of these front-line practitioners think it is. Solutions to the widespread non-acceptance of evolution must therefore involve not just further resolution of the “religion vs. science” controversy. They must also...