Elizabeth Anderson (Michigan): Social Movements, Experiments in Living, and Moral Progress: Case Studies from Britain’s Abolition of Slavery. From Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Agoston E. Eiben (VU): Grand Challenges for Evolutionary Robotics; and Mel Slater (Barcelona): Grand Challenges in Virtual Environments. Andre Nollkaemper (Amsterdam): Power and Responsibility. Daryl J. Levinson (NYU): Incapacitating the State. Richard L. Lara (Whittier): The Problem of Sovereignty, International Law, and Intellectual Conscience. Ingo Venzke (Amsterdam): Is Interpretation in International Law a Game? Anne Peters (Max Planck): Has the Advisory Opinion’s finding that Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence was not Contrary to International Law Set an Unfortunate Precedent? How we fuck now: Saeed Jones joins Steven Thrasher and Dave Tuller to discuss sex, gay men, and what we are (and aren’t) doing. Judith Shulevitz on how science is changing what it means to be dead. Jonathan Chait on how why he has become less pro-Israel. Jeff Colgan on OPEC, the Phantom Menace. On the endemic corruption of the global oil industry: Hardy Calvert interviews Ken Silverstein, author of The Secret World of Oil (and more). Reilly Dowd on how the White House petition site generates more grievances than it redresses. Scott McLemee reviews Prophets, Gurus, and Pundits: Rhetorical Styles and Public Engagement by Anna M. Young.
