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Tom W. Bell (Chapman): Copyright Porn Trolls, Wasting Taxi Medallions, and the Propriety of “Property”. Liane Tanguay (Houston): Sovereign Is He, Who Knocks: The Neoliberal State of Exception in American Television. Davood Taghipour Bazargani and Vahid Noroozi Larsari (Islamic Azad): “Postmodernism”: Is the Contemporary State of Affairs Correctly Described as “Postmodern”? E. Glen Weyl (Chicago) and Alexander White (Tsinghua): Let the Best “One” Win: Policy Lessons from the New Economics of Platforms. Carey Karim Morewedge (BU): Utility: Anticipated, Experienced, and Remembered. From GQ, Drew Magary on the Least Influential People of 2014. Marc Parry on Saskia Sassen's missing chapter: When the renowned sociologist was a girl in Argentina, her family had a frequent visitor — Adolf Eichmann. Steven Douglas Smith on how equality has the potential to be an engine of nihilism. Reporters are not your friends: Malcolm Harris on journalists aren't looking out for their sources, they're looking for a story. Judith Shulevitz on how what happened at Rolling Stone was not Jackie’s fault. #IStandWithJackie: People on Twitter are criticizing Rolling Stone and supporting UVa student. A deformed woman: Laura Kipnis on Hillary Clinton and the men who hate her. Agnotology: Larry Dossey on the varieties of ignorance, criminal negligence, and crimes against humanity. The U.S. military transfers six Guantanamo detainees to Uruguay; all of them had been imprisoned since 2002, none has ever been charged with a crime. Republican attorneys general have formed an unprecedented, secretive alliance with some of the nation’s top energy producers to push back against the Obama regulatory agenda.