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3 Sep 2011, 1:11 pm
by Kenneth Anderson I wanted to flag for reader attention two articles in the Washington Post on the CIA and JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command), and their evolving roles as central counterterrorism fighters. [read post]
3 Sep 2011, 12:32 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) I wanted to flag for reader attention two articles in the Washington Post on the CIA and JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command), and their evolving roles as central counterterrorism fighters. [read post]
3 Sep 2011, 11:21 am
(Kenneth Anderson) (H/T Insta). [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 9:35 am
(Kenneth Anderson) John Bellinger writes at Lawfare on the 11th Circuit’s dismissal of Alien Tort Statute claims against former senior Bolivian government officials. [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 9:20 am
by Kenneth Anderson John Bellinger writes at Lawfare on the 11th Circuit’s dismissal of Alien Tort Statute claims against former senior Bolivian government officials. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 6:26 pm
In addition to the already-flourishing book review section–feel free to email Book Review Editor Kenneth Anderson (anderson.lawfare@gmail.com) if you want to review a book–and our recently-launched news roundup, we have other exciting changes we will be announcing over the next few months: new partnerships, new projects, new sections, new contributors. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 8:22 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) Ryan Calo responds to my earlier post on whether a software engineer could win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in a post at Concurring Opinions that is considerably more profound and well-thought out than my original somewhat whimsical post — it being a product of no power or internet at home or at school. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 6:27 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) I just finished reading an essay by Ronald Coase I had not read before — indeed, hadn’t realized existed — on Adam Smith’s thought in The Theory of Moral Sentiments. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 4:22 pm
One fellow enthusiast, Kenneth Anderson at American University, posed a provocative question over at Volokh Conspiracy yesterday: will the Nobel Prize for literature ever go to a software engineer who writes a program that writes a novel? [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 3:10 pm
by Kenneth Anderson (Shameless self-promotion alert!) [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 11:28 am
(Kenneth Anderson) The estimable Adam Entous and Siobhan Gorman of the Wall Street Journal’s national security reporting team have a good discussion of the targeted killing-drone strike on August 22, 2011 that killed Attiyah Abd al-Rahman, Al-Qaeda’s second in command.A considerable part of the Pakistani government’s irritation with the conduct of drone strikes is that the US not only does not seek permission — it no longer needs to, from an operational… [read post]
28 Aug 2011, 5:50 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) One hundred years from now, might we see the Nobel Prize for literature awarded to the engineer of the algorithm that, embedded in a machine, produced the novel that might, in our era, have been the reason for the prize? [read post]
27 Aug 2011, 9:04 am
Contact Anderson & Wooditch, PC today for your free, initial consultation. [read post]
26 Aug 2011, 10:15 am
(Kenneth Anderson) The Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Gorman has an interesting profile today of Michael Morell, a veteran CIA insider (31 years in) who is tapped to help guide the new director, David Petraeus, as he steps out of the uniform and into the suit, through the maze of internal CIA culture. [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 9:36 am
(Kenneth Anderson) One persistent question about the crisis in the eurozone is why it is a crisis for the euro at all. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 12:03 pm
In July, you'll recall, Judge Frost halted the killing of Kenneth Smith because the murder process was, in practice, altogether arbitrary. [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 9:31 am
(Kenneth Anderson) If you’d like an entertaining techno-social satire with a reasonable amount of wit and bite, try Max Barry’s Machine Man. [read post]
21 Aug 2011, 6:12 pm
by Kenneth Anderson DARPA will be making a grant award this fall to some organization to address interstellar space flight: In what is perhaps the ultimate startup opportunity, Darpa, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, plans to award some lucky, ambitious and star-struck organization roughly $500,000 in seed money to begin studying what it would take — organizationally, technically, sociologically and ethically — to send humans to another star, a… [read post]
21 Aug 2011, 3:42 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) H/T Jonathan Zittrain, this new article in MIT’s Technology Review, The Cause of Riots and the Price of Food.Marco Lagi and buddies at the New England Complex Systems Institute in Cambridge, say they’ve found a single factor that seems to trigger riots around the world.This single factor is the price of food. [read post]
21 Aug 2011, 2:13 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) Tyler Cowen’s column in the New York Times today takes up the disturbing problem of productivity that seems not just to be growing more slowly, but actually weakening:The overlooked piece of news came this month from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. [read post]
