"Written even before the advent of America’s war in Vietnam, Dune captures a world in which war is inherently asymmetric, where head-on, conventional military conflict has largely been replaced with all the subtler ways that humans seek to dominate one another: insurgency and counterinsurgency, sabotage and assassination, diplomacy, espionage and treachery, proxy wars and resource … Continue reading Dune Foresaw—and Influenced—Half a Century of Global Conflict
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Horses, Not Zebras
"'If you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras,' Mom liked to say, drawing from her wisdom as an emergency-room nurse that cautioned against wild medical diagnoses...But I wonder — in our walling off what we can talk about and what we cannot, in our work to accept each other despite our conflicting views of the … Continue reading Horses, Not Zebras
