A new issue of The European Journal of Humor Research is out. Bernardo Bortolin Kerr (Nottingham): Fantasy, Borges and the Map to the Territory. Veli-Matti Karhulahti (Turku): Hermeneutics and Ludocriticism (“This article introduces the concept of ludocriticism as a practice for evaluating game and videogame artifacts.”). Michael Castle Miller (American): Governing for the Corporations: History and Analysis of U.S. Promotion of Foreign Investment. Hub Zwart (RU Nijmegen): What is Nature? On the Use of Poetry in Philosophy Courses for Science Students. From Re/code, a special series on the new instant gratification economy. Amanda Taub on why most of the people Ebola kills may never actually contract it. What’s in a magazine name? Mr. Magazine wonders. Between Israel and social democracy: Daniel Solomon on Tony Judt’s Jewishness. Will the Federal Reserve still be evil with this nice woman in charge? Itemizing atrocity: Tamara K. Nopper and Mariame Kaba on how for blacks, the “war on terror” hasn’t come home — it’s always been here. Does David Bromwich’s idea of a Burkean left amount to anything more than contempt for Obama? Samuel Moyn reviews Moral Imagination: Essays and The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and the Beautiful to American Independence by David Bromwich (and more at LRB). Shell shocked: Jack Jenkins on the extraordinary story of how one man escaped ISIS. The transparency trap: David Frum on why trying to make government more accountable has backfired. Chiara Bottici on anarchism and feminism: Toward a happy marriage?
