The Wilson Quarterly articles

Recent articles from The Wilson Quarterly

A future for the making.(EDITOR'S COMMENT)(Editorial)
March 22, 2009... To speculate about the future is, for most of us, as natural as breathing. The French political thinker Bertrand de Jouvenel observed, in his marvelously well-titled book The Art of Conjecture (1967), that this impulse to contemplate what we cannot know is one of the defining human...

Robots at war.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2009... P. W. SINGER'S ARTICLE contributes significantly to a discussion that is long overdue ["Robots at War: The New Battlefield," Winter '09]* Singer illustrates clearly how the trend toward autonomous fighting machines is inexorably driven by the logic of war. He correctly notes that...

The contrarian.(AT THE CENTER)(Doh Shin of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars)
March 22, 2009... IT'S EASY TO IMAGINE THE DIMINUTIVE, animated Doh Shin as the eager South Korean schoolboy he was in the 1950s. It's also easy to imagine why he was "always getting into trouble, as he says with a hint of satisfaction, when he was a graduate student at the University of Illinois,...

Trusting government.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2009... WILLIAM A. GALSTON HAS written a fine, nuanced piece about why Americans' faith in government has so diminished over the last generation ["The Right Bite," Winter '09]. Although such shifts in national attitudes usually have multiple causes, I would emphasize the failing economy of the 1970s...

Expeditionary government.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2009... AS A FIELD ARTILLERY OFFICER working on rule-of-law issues during my third tour in Iraq, I am very sympathetic to John A. Nagl's call for increased expeditionary capacity in the civilian agencies of the U.S. government ["The Expeditionary Imperative," Winter '09]. Service members have...