From the latest issue of the Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics, Robin Ringstad (Cal State-Stanislaus): Political Diversity Among Social Work Students. Michael Asimow (Stanford): Ally McBeal and Subjective Narration. Jeff Carter (Mississippi): The Political Cost of War Mobilization in Democracies and Dictatorships; and Leader Survival and Government Spending in Democracies and Dictatorships. Stefano Costalli (Essex), Luigi Moretti (Padua), and Costantino Pischedda (Columbia): The Economic Costs of Civil War: Synthetic Counterfactual Evidence and the Effects of Ethnic Fractionalization. Nicola Smith (Birmingham): Queer Sex Work; Queer in/and Sexual Economies; and The Global Political Economy of Sex Work. Zachary Sunderman on pacifism and pragmatics. In order to be free enough, you have to love deep enough: Riayn Fergins interviews Cornel West. On being revolutionary: Julia Douthwaite reviews Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution by Marisa Linton, The Calendar in Revolutionary France: Perceptions of Time in Literature, Culture, Politics by Sanja Perovic, and The Politics of the Provisional: Art and Ephemera in Revolutionary France by Richard Taws. The miracle of large numbers: Alex Bolkin on how an understanding of probabilities and the law of large numbers can explain seemingly miraculous events. Was the spiritual father of the GOP actually a Democrat? Geoffrey Kabaservice reviews To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party by Heather Cox Richardson. Roberta Bivins reviews Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present, ed. Alison Bashford.
