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Often ignored

Grant R. Darwin (Penn): Originalism and Same-Sex Marriage. D. Daniel Sokol (Florida): Policing the Firm. From Studies in Social Justice, a special issue on Networks of Social Justice: Transnational Activism and Social Change. Martha Nussbaum on Julius Caesar and political love: An excerpt from Shakespeare and the Law: A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions. It is easy to trace disasters like the Euro and the Arab Spring to the bursts of unfounded optimism that gave rise to them — so why is pessimism so often ignored? Peter Stone reviews G. A. Cohen’s Finding Oneself in the Other. Henny Sender interviews David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, on private equity, patriotic philanthropy, and panda pornography. Spencer Ackerman on the biggest threat to U.S. national security: Wars.