Kieran Setiya (MIT): The Midlife Crisis. Jonny Anomaly (UNC): Public Goods and Procreation. Doris Marie Provine (ASU): The Morality of Law: The Case Against Deportation of Settled Immigrants. When immigrants lose their human rights: Gary Gutting interviews Joseph Carens, author of The Ethics of Immigration. Joshua Keating on Eric Garner: How would we cover the decision not to indict a police officer if it happened in another country? Matt Bruenig on the rise of new capitals. Kieran Healy gets into the aviation business and launches Air Gini, America’s most American airline. Benny Johnson on the 17 most American things you can buy at Walmart. Who wins when gambling is legal? Turning customers into cultists: Derek Thompson on why many companies now take their cues from religious sects. Goodbye, Chespirito: Latin America bids farewell to one of its greatest comedians, Roberto Gomez Bolanos (aka “El Chavo del Ocho” and “El Chapulin Colorado”). The emergence of glacial archaeology: Here is the editorial for the first issue of the Journal of Glacial Archaeology. I, Start-up: Consumer desire for seamless experience thereby lends itself to a markedly exploitative start-up culture that, without material equality (or robot butlers), obfuscates the human face of service. Evan Hughes reviews new collections from The New Republic, The Baffler, The Believer, and n+1. Apropos of nothing, Jeet Heer talks about the trouble with running a publication depending on benevolence of a rich patron. Jonathan Chait on a eulogy for The New Republic. Siva Vaidhyanathan: “With @tnr giving up, how about turning to deeper & broader sources? Like @bookforum @publicbooks @VQR. Ideas are not dead yet.” And from Bookforum’s 20th anniversary issue, Kaitlin Phillips reviews Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's “Learned” by Lena Dunham.
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