Just this month, the long-shot Democratic Party presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich proposed a new cabinet-level department in the executive branch of the federal government: the Department of Peace. Forty-six other Democrats (and exactly zero Republicans) agreed to co-sponsor his proposal, which would create a 'Secretary of Peace,' charged with preventing both domestic and foreign violence through enlightened social policies. This department would operate in conjunction with and get its ideas from a government-run Peace Academy, set up to offer four-year 'peace studies' degrees. The department would also provide grants for peace studies departments in universities throughout America, and encourage peace...