Monday Wilson Quarterly Blogging

Peter W. Singer, author of a 2003 book on private military contractors and a 2005 book on child soldiers, is back with a new book Wired for War about military robots. I won’t say much more about the book at this juncture since I’m supposed to review it for a magazine, but I will recommend this adaptation from the book in the new issue of The Wilson Quarterly.

This is a magazine that I think nobody reads, but it’s actually really good. Recent issues have included this from Larry Bartels and this from Holly Yeager and other great stuff. But you can’t just do everything online! If you buy the current issue—the one with Singer’s robots on the cover—on the newsstand you’ll find one witty, engaging, and informative letter to the editor by yours truly and another by the lovely and talented Sara Mead. As best I know, it’s a coincidence that we were both solicited to write letters for this issue—the previous one just happened to include one article that criticizes blogging and another that criticizes preschool—but maybe it’s all part of Skynet’s long-term plan to conquer us.