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The term has a history—George Orwell helped define it, calling it a prolonged “peace that is no peace.” Some 600 years before Orwell, the Spanish scholar Don Juan Manuel articulated the idea of a “tepid war” simmering below the thin surface of peace. The United States and China today are not in an authentic peace—and have not been for some time.
The Wires of War
Jacob Helberg
Decision makers throughout history have found comfort in the consensus of experts and rejected or persecuted the outlier who was often later proven correct.
Warnings
Richard A. Clarke, R.P. Eddy
She began to move back and forth across the pages of the transcripts underlining salient words and phrases and putting these together in stanzas in a process that she has referred to as ‘poetic transcription’, mentioned above. She illustrates how she remained close to the field texts by showing an excerpt from the transcript and underlining the found words she used in the poetry, giving transparency and credibility to her work. Her attention to and explication of her process have made her work very helpful to others experimenting with poetic inquiry.
Qualitative Inquiry
Lynn Butler-Kisber
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