From the inaugural issue of International Journal of Social Science Studies, Ricard Zapata-Barrero (Pompeu Fabra): Utopian Political Theory and Migration without Borders; Dafna Shir-Vertesh (Ben-Gurion): Love Has (NO) Boundaries: Researching a Sexual Taboo; and Asnat Dor (YVC): Don’t Stay Out Late! Mom, I’m Twenty-eight: Emerging Adults and Their Parents under One Roof. From Rolling Stone, Janet Reiman on Jahar's World: He was a charming kid with a bright future — but no one saw the pain he was hiding or the monster he would become. Humans are the real threat to life on Earth: An excerpt from Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott. After Zimmerman verdict, NRA says “stand your ground” is a human right. Stuart Thomson on Norm Macdonald’s weird, wonderful Twitter book club. Obamacare skeptics are deluding themselves: Conservatives think the law is unraveling — but implementing the Affordable Care Act is going to be a huge success. From TLS, back to the real: What do we lose when we replace access to manuscripts with digitization? John Marshall on Progressive Senescent Columnist Fogeyism (PSCF), an increasingly common ailment in an aging America. The Ivy League Babbitt: Emily Schrader on the social and political prescience of Harvard’s humanist. The NSA’s massive data center is coming online ahead of schedule — and it's more powerful than you thought.
