The latest issue of The International Journal of Illich Studies is out. Adam M. Gershowitz (William and Mary): Google Glass While Driving. Maurice Yolles (John Moores) and Gerhard Fink (IACCM): Personality, Pathology and Mindsets: Part 1 - Agency, Personality and Mindscapes; Part 2 - Cultural Traits and Enantiomers; and Part 3 - Pathologies and Corruption. Michael Robbins reviews Atheists: The Origin of the Species by Nick Spencer. Roger Scruton's quotes on nonsense: Richard Dawkins, original sin, Islamism and more. Gershom Gorenberg on why it's time to stop “managing” the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and just end it. After James Foley execution, war reporters ask if stories are worth dying for. Even the Islamists of ISIS are obsessing over Ferguson: They're hoping to use black disenchantment as a recruiting tool. What do Iraq’s Sunni Arabs have in common with Ferguson, Mo., African-Americans? Juan Cole investigates. Tom Koch, author of Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground, on Ebola and the “new” epidemic. No, No, Nine-Ettes: The 90s-nostalgia boomlet that blossomed last year — online, across the cable dial, and in the fashion pages — says as much about the future as it does about the decade of Seinfeld and the Starr Report, of Gingrich and grunge. What’s up with that: Nick Stockton on why it’s so hard to catch your own typos. Clare Chambers reviews Our Bodies, Whose Property? by Anne Phillips. Slot-machine science: Brad Plumer on how casinos get you to spend more money.
