Jessica Litman (Michigan): Fetishizing Copies. Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries (INSEAD): The Shaman, the Therapist, and the Coach. Ana-Raquel Moniz (Coimbra): The Rulemaking Power of Administrative Agencies: Crisis of Legality, Rule of Law, and Democracy. Miranda Yaver (Columbia): When Do Agencies Have Agency? Bureaucratic Noncompliance in the EPA. From Reconstruction, a special issue on Spatial Literary Studies. Last things: Steffen Woll on the zombie phenomenon as a mediator between American apocalypticism and postmodernism. Could drones finally expose one of the country’s most secretive industries? Tara Culp-Ressler investigates. Drones outpacing rules as popularity soars in New York. A revolutionary drone-based delivery network is being tested — in Bhutan. From the forthcoming International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology, here is the entry on the state by Sami Moisio and Bernd Belina. The point is not that colonialism didn’t happen, or was inconsequential; the point is that colonialism wasn’t the only thing of consequence that did: Aaron Bady interviews Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi. Reagan aide Douglas MacKinnon wants the South to secede and form an anti-gay “Reagan” nation. Why I’ve just deleted Uber from my phone: Sarah Lacy on the horrific trickle down of Asshole culture. Sheldon Wolin's the reason I began drinking coffee: Corey Robin on politics, vision, and “inverted totalitarianism”. Even developers agree this ultraviolent video game goes too far. Tracking the trackers: Ben Terris on what it’s like to have the most mind-numbing job in a campaign. At newspapers, putting the squeeze on an elite subscriber corps. BuzzFeed comes not to bury newspapers, but to improve on them.
