No Kid Graduating In A Political Science

The Medium's Gaze Is Brief, Intense, And Promiscuous. The Shelf Life Of The Moral Causes It Makes Its Own Is Brutally Short.

They [afghans] Understand The Difficult Truth That Their Best Hope Of Freedom Lies In A Temporary Experience Of Imperial Rule.

Tad Homer-dixon Is A Rare Kind Of Public Intellectual, Who Combines Real Expertise With A Commitment To Communicate To The Widest Possible Readership. In The Ingenuity Gap He Wants Us All To Wake-up To The Fearful Possibility That Our Blithe Trust In Science And Technology May Be Misplaced. Human Ingenuity May Not Be Capable Of Coping With Two Emerging Crises Of This Century And The Next: Population Growth And Environmental Despoliation. Read Homer Dixon's Wake-up Call And You Will See The Future Very Differently.

An Intellectual May Be Interested In Ideas And Policies For Their Own Sake, But A Politician's Interest Is Exclusively In The Question Of Whether An Idea's Time Has Come.

A Liberal Society Cannot Be Defended By Herbivores. We Need Carnivores To Save Us, But We Had Better Make Sure The Meat-eaters Hunt Only On Our Orders.