Yxta Maya Murray (Loyola): Inflammatory Statehood (“Art and psychological studies reveal that Arizonan Latinos act as if they suffered under tyrannical repression. Why? Arizona is not a site of mass killings, as was Yugoslavia”.) Jan Blommaert (Tilburg): Meaning as a Nonlinear Effect: The Birth of Cool. Christopher Weaver (Rutgers): Evilism, Moral Rationalism, and Reasons Internalism. Frederick Schauer (Virginia): On the Utility of Religious Toleration. Micah Schwartzman (Virginia): Religion, Equality, and Public Reason. Why defeat the Islamic State but not the Taliban? Paul Miller wonders. Saif Al-Azzawi on how the U.S. wars set the stage for the Islamic State. Paul Krugman on why we fight wars: Conquest doesn’t pay, but political leaders don’t seem to care. Given all that is going on, why is International Security so damn boring? Thomas E. Ricks wonders. The final edition of WWE Magazine hits newsstands after 30 years in circulation. The mathematics of Ebola trigger stark warnings: Act now or regret it. Jen Larsen on the problem with women in video games. All these effing geniuses: Thomas Frank on Ezra Klein, expert-driven journalism, and the phony Washington consensus (and responses by Jonathan Chait, Will Wilkinson, and Daniel Drezner). Leon Neyfakh on what “age segregation” does to America: From grade schools to senior villages, we now spend much of our lives on separate generational islands — can we reverse the trend? Lauren Davis on the world's most dangerous toxic ghost towns. Sam Sacks on the rise of time machine fiction: Novels that tell multiple stories across different historical periods have become a staple of contemporary literature. Michael Finkel on the strange and curious tale of the last true hermit.
