When theory runs out of road, the armchair generals retreat to semantics, but the people who have carried the weight know that agreements without enforcement are just polite invitations to be tested.

"It would be very easy to make a bad film of Dune…" –Ridley Scott, South Bend Tribune, 1979 This week marks the 40th anniversary of David Lynch's Dune. A $40 million box office disaster upon release, ...