Recent events in Columbia and Hungary have precipitated new analysis of a recurring problem - the benefits and hazards of popular referenda. I grew up in one country where referenda were gifts that just wouldn't stop giving. I later worked in several countries where similar problems resulted in the extremes of war. I now live … Continue reading The Common Vote
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A return to public writing…
A few years ago I suspended most of my public writing and online activity in order to minimise distractions, focus on building my business, and move my dissertation research forward. Aside from sporadic and intermittent tweets, almost all of my non-PhD writing has been for clients , and that's the sort of work that nevers … Continue reading A return to public writing…
Omnivore 13/01/2010
AQ Has a New Strategy, Obama Needs One Too // Bruce Hoffman/WaPo Terror On Campus // Rob Dover/KoW Military Justice and the Fear Game // Scott Horton/Harper's Magazine Afghan Recovery Report: Afghan Journalists Under Fire // Institute for War & Peace Reporting Exploring the Megastructure: Smugglers' Caves // Geoff Manaugh/BLDGBLOG I'm going to be heads … Continue reading Omnivore 13/01/2010
Omnivore 11/01/2009
Military Deluged With Drone Intelligence // NYT Carl Shmitt's Nuremberg Near-Miss // Kevin John Heller/Opinio Juris DChief of LAPD Counterterrorism Talk // City of Sound The Insecure Scholar: The Dawkins Dilemma // Times Literary Supplement LabCAST 45: FaceSense // MIT Media Lab
Omnivore 08/01/2010
A Sobering Statistic For Aspiring Academics // Savage Minds On the Gulf Between Academia and Journalism // Daniel Bennett Journalism Academics Must Learn From Multimedia Reporters // Tim Luckhurst Measuring the Impact of Charisma // (via) MIT Media Lab Google Applies to Become Power Marketer // NYT Crisis? What Crisis? // Abu Muqawama
MICHAEL A. INNES 