Brent McFerran (Michigan) and Jennifer Argo (Alberta): The Entourage Effect. Ben Abraham (Western Sydney): Fedora Shaming as Discursive Activism. From The Arrow: A Journal of Wakeful Society, Culture and Politics, James K. Rowe on all that is solid melts into the air, all that is holy is Marxist; and is the future back in the picture? Richard Reoch on the quest for a new social vision. The sound of difference: Bernd Brunner on why we find some languages more beautiful than others. How the North ended up on top of the map: Nick Danforth on a cartographic history of what’s up. The rationale for Christian pacifism: Kayumba P. David on the ethic of non-violence in the thought of Stanley Hauerwas. Puerto Rico’s chirpy coqui frogs might be changing their tunes amid climate change. It may be a bad idea to waste resources, but is it illegal? This simple trailer has everything you need to deal with disaster. Three expensive milliseconds: We’re giving huge sums to the financial industry while receiving little or nothing in return. Eric Scott Hunsader, a well-known critic of high-frequency trading, explains how the stock market became “rigged”. The Brecht Forum, organized around the aim of examining the role of the political left in American society, is closing, apparently felled by market forces. In Bundy Ranch's war against the U.S., Rightbloggers pick guess which side. Allowing a bunch of militia freaks and gun-toting thugs to run off federal agents trying to act against a rancher who's refused to pay grazing fees for using federal lands for 20 years seems like a very, very bad idea. Liberal fascism is everywhere: Behold its shocking rise!
