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Missing something crucially important

Bonnie Honig (Brown): Three Models of Emergency Politics. Matthew Mendham (Christopher Newport): Can Rousseau’s Life Be Reconciled with His Principles? The Fundamental Alternatives. David S Siroky (Arizona State) and Hans-Jorg Sigwart (Erlangen-Nurnberg): Principle and Prudence: Rousseau on Private Property and Inequality. David Lay Williams and Brad Mapes-Martins on what Rousseau can tell us about the challenges facing Climate March: Why the march likely won't succeed without transforming democracy itself. Will British PM make good on promises to Scottish voters? Paul Ryan declares war against math. What should a magazine company be now? The most storied one in America has to come up with an answer fast. Slavoj Zizek reviews Free World: Why a Crisis of the West Reveals the Opportunity of Our Time by Timothy Garton Ash. Meet the college women who are starting a revolution against campus sexual assault. Big Oil’s heirs join call for action as climate summit opens. Hiawatha Bray on how street addresses could help us fight Ebola: A huge chunk of the world is missing something crucially important. Is Ebola the beginning of the end of the world? As deaths rise in Monrovia and the sick cluster in gutters outside overcrowded treatment centers, many people are turning to God for answers — and salvation. In (Un)Catalogued, a regular column for JSTOR Daily, Megan Kate Nelson will be considering questions of archival collecting, digitization, and research. What would happen to you if you went back in time and killed your grandfather? A model using photons reveals that quantum mechanics can solve the quandary — and even foil quantum cryptography.