If you’re looking for 15-second sound bites to summarize complex world issues for you, Austin Bay’s Arena Academy is not the place to go. And if your tastes run to hundred-page, statistics-packed policy papers describing every facet of a problem in excruciating detail, it is not the place to go either. The Arena seems specially designed to fill the niche between the airhead coverage TV provides and the tedious egghead coverage of professional policy analysts. Arena Academy’s pilot offering, a 22-minute video which examines seven scenarios that could follow a rapid U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq, illustrates an attempt to...