In this July 18 file photo, Gen. David Petraeus salutes during a changing of command ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan.
David Petraeus, a newly retired Army general who gained prominence charting U.S. strategy in the Afghan and Iraq wars, was sworn in Tuesday as director of the CIA, leaving behind his uniform and his military brain trust....
In a previous post, I lauded the new atheist author Sam Harris for reaching out to David Eagleman, a neuroscientist who advocates "possibilianism" as a kind of intellectual antidote to the culture wars.
Whatever this pair does, I hope it's televised....
