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A reality soon

Karen J. Alter (Northwestern): The New Terrain of International Law: Courts, Politics, Rights. From The New Yorker, Steve Coll reviews The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth by Mark Mazzetti; and Kosovo’s leaders have been accused of grotesque war crimes — but can anyone prove it? Conversations with evil men: James Dawes’s interviews with people who committed acts of atrocity were like “a guided tour of hell.” Andrew Sullivan on the death of blogs — or of magazines? George Monbiot on the self-hating state: Devolving policy to “the market” doesn’t solve the problem of power — it makes it worse. Should robots be able to decide to kill you on their own? A U.N. report calls for a moratorium, but lethal autonomous robots could be a reality soon. Jew me up, Jew me down: Mike Levine on acceptable contexts for “Jew” as a verb.