John Williams (Singapore Management): Moore’s Paradox and the Priority of Belief Thesis and The Completeness of the Pragmatic Solution to Moore's Paradox in Belief. Cynthia Lee (GWU) and Peter Kar Yu Kwan (Golden Gate): The Trans Panic Defense: Heteronormativity, and the Murder of Transgender Women. From the inaugural issue of Archenemy magazine, rather than wonder if video games are art themselves, glitch art uses mistakes in video games as a medium to create artwork built around failure. Geoff Manaugh on how the Earth was almost fried back in 2012. Timothy Snyder on Ukraine: The antidote to Europe’s fascists? Joe the Plumber to parents of Elliot Rodger’s victims: “Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights”. Here's basically every pro-gun cliche that exists on the Internet. David Weigel on three reasons that the Santa Barbara mass shooting won't result in any new gun laws. Tara Culp-Ressler on a chilling new website that documents what happens to women who reject men’s sexual advances. About ideas: The Washington Post’s PostEverything is an attempt to expand the conversation outward. The return of political correctness: Henry Price on culture wars and creative de[con]struction. Sam Knight on the empire of Alain de Botton. How did the universe get so complicated? We live in a random universe, explains Marcus Chown. Richard J. Evans reviews Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation into the Third Reich’s Enduring Mystery by Benjamin Carter Hett.
