Stephen Holmes on Drones
Crafted with his characteristic mix of brilliance and dark speculations about the motives of government actors, Stephen Holmes, my colleague, has published an exceptionally rich essay in the Financial Times on issues concerning the use of drones, in the guise of a review of Mark Mazetti's book, The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth. Whether you agree with Holmes or not, the essay is well worth a read, here.
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Crafted with his characteristic mix of brilliance and dark speculations about the motives of government actors, Stephen Holmes, my colleague, has published an exceptionally rich essay in the Financial Times on issues concerning the use of drones, in the guise of a review of Mark Mazetti's book, The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth. Whether you agree with Holmes or not, the essay is well worth a read, here.
Professor Pildes is the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law and Co-Faculty Director for the Program on Law and Security at NYU School of Law. His scholarship focuses on legal issues concerning the structure of democratic institutions and politics, separation of powers, administrative law, and national-security law. A clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall at the United States Supreme Court, Professor Pildes has been named a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Carnegie Scholar.
