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This is an entirely fair question in response to my article in @ForeignPolicy on why we ought to avoid the term warrior (https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/19/united-states-afghanistan-citizen-soldiers-warriors-forever-wars/), so let's a

A touch smarter observation would be to note that every use of a Palantir in the story is deceptive or manipulative, at least to one party.Aragorn deceives Sauron into believing

So I noticed a lot of my followers are graduate students in the 'academic' fields. And I know things right now are looking pretty grim. Distance learning and distance teaching

So I watched the latest Star Wars Squadrons (https://youtu.be/vCgIE96p1BA ) trailer, and I can't help escaping the notion that someone, either at Lucasfilm or at EA has missed the point of

Appreciate this being called a shield wall rather than a phalanx or testudo or some more specific term.I should note that despite such overlapped, vertically stacked (two rows) shield walls

So the last chat-about-universities tweet went far, but it also raised a bunch of questions which I want to talk about.One of the big questions was admin vs. staff, the

So everyone is talking about UNC's COVID-19 mess - and all that criticism is perfectly valid.But we also need to talk about why the uni-administration probably had no choice.Buckle up