Michelangelo Magasic (Curtin): Travel Blogging: An Auto-ethnographic Study of How Online Interactions Influence a Journey. Michelle R. Warren (Dartmouth): The Song of Roland: How the Middle Ages Aren’t Old. Kieran Proctor (ANU): Sovereignty, Recognition and Duty: Hegel and the Responsibility to Protect. M. Isabel Medina (Loyola): Derivative Citizenship: What's Marriage, Citizenship, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Race and Class Got to Do with It? Timothy W. Grinsell (Chicago): Linguistics and Legislative Intent. The liberal Zionists: Jonathan Freedland reviews My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit (and Freedland on liberal Zionism after Gaza: “They will have to decide which of their political identities matters more, whether they are first a liberal or first a Zionist. And that is a choice they don’t want to make”). As Reason’s editor defends its racist history, here’s a copy of its holocaust denial “special issue”. Strange bedfellows: Andrew O’Hehir on Putin, the Chomskyite left and the ghosts of the Cold War. We’re missing the story: News media are cutting back on the immersive reporting that matters most. Who killed a nationally renowned blogging law professor Dan Markel in his home? Michael Schulson on how to choose: When your reasons are worse than useless, sometimes the most rational choice is a random stab in the dark. The introduction to Axel Hagerstrom and Modern Social Thought, ed. Sven Eliaeson, Patricia Mindus, and Stephen P. Turner. The Down and Dirty History of TMZ: Anne Helen Petersen on how a lawyer from the San Fernando Valley created a gossip empire and transformed himself into the most feared man in Hollywood, all by breaking a few long-held rules and, as rumor has it, lording over a notorious vault full of secrets.
