Works of art follow reality; they call for a hundred flowers to appear; things fall apart. The arts are entering the space outside themselves, looking hard to the future.

Because of many investigations and much new archival material we now know more about the Nazi war of annihilation in the east. It is no longer taboo to mention the collaboration of nationalists, (...)

Neuroscientific and pharmacological research threaten to yield new weapons and new ways to make soldiers more deadly – some of these have already been used by the US in Iraq and by Russian special forces.