David Brooks has a nice column in the New York Times on what data can’t do.  It is a welcomed attempt to temper the recent wild enthusiasm about “big data” and perhaps a more long-standing reliance in business and other fields (like security) to use data analysis to impress, comfort, or deceive share holders and citizens.  Brooks notes the things that big data is not very good at: identifying masterpieces rather than trends; dealing with unreplicated events; and... Read More Read more

Here is a new article in The National Interest by Dominic Johnson and Bradley Thayer, both authors of chapters in the book Natural Security and frequent collaborators on the Natural Security project, on the roots of human warfare.