Daniel Peterson (Georgia Highlands): Is Praying for the Morally Impermissible Morally Permissible? Mary L. Dudziak (Emory): The Future as a Concept in National Security Law. Adam S. Chilton (Chicago): The Laws of War and Public Opinion: An Experimental Study. Sarah Maxey (Cornell): Free to Do Good? Humanitarian Justifications and Perceptions of Norm Abuse in Iraq, 2003-2008. Matenia Sirseloudi (Hamburg): Why War Matters in Jihadi Radicalisation. Corey Robin on Barack Obama’s upside-down Schmittianism. From The Boston Globe, how should a democracy decide when to compromise its ideals in pursuit of victory? Alan M. Dershowitz on a war of principles (in 5 parts). Patricia Vieira reviews The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities and The Humanities and Public Life by Doris Sommer. Tyler Malone interviews Simon Critchley, author of Bowie and Memory Theatre. The first chapter from The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter by Katherine Freese. Kasim Ortiz reviews Sexual Discretion: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing by Jeffrey Q. McCune. Black life, annotated: Alice Goffman’s critically acclaimed ethnography On the Run is another story about a white lady come to study young black men — who thought this was a good idea? Jared Keller reviews Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse by Mary-Jane Rubenstein. J.K. Trotter on the 16 most BuzzFeed facts of all time. The error of seeing history as governed by social forces: Peter Thonemann reviews Thucydides and the Idea of History by Neville Morley and Thucydides on Politics: Back to the Present by Geoffrey Hawthorn.
