From the latest issue of Dissensus, Sophie Bourgault (Ottawa): Prolegomena to a Rehabilitation of Platonic Moderation. The “Fucking Hipster” Show: Anthony Galluzzo on mocking hipsters in the service of capital. An odd assortment of heroes and villains all claimed to have been humbled in recent times — but how can it be that triumph and disaster both have the capacity to humble those who experience them? From The New Yorker, after Rana: James Surowiecki on Western companies and Bangladesh’s factory fire; and the baby in the well: Paul Bloom on the case against empathy. Boehner accidentally explains why his deficit position is phony. From LRB, is Wagner bad for us? Nicholas Spice wonders. Colin Farrelly on empirical ethics and the duty to extend the "biological warranty period". A look at how the rising sea is already a threat in the Caribbean region.
