Alexander Dunst (Paderborn): Sacco with Badiou: On the Political Ontology of Comics. Obama proposes free community college for millions of students (and more). Did Obama just introduce a “public option” for higher education? The president’s plan to make two years of community college free for some students could solve some of higher education’s most intractable problems. Obama’s college proposal is also a bid to rev the economy. From Logos, a special section on rethinking the politics of “sex work”, including Harriet Fraad on sex work; Lori Watson on why sex work isn’t work; Ninotchka Rosca on colonizing the body; Nancy Holmstrom on sex, work and capitalism; and Johanna Brenner on selling sexual services: A socialist feminist perspective. Angel Ferrero interviews Yasha Levine: “In 2013, Tor got over 90% of its funding from the U.S. government”. I think he means “uninformed”: Herbert Gintis reviews The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies by Bryan Caplan. Peter Augustine Lawler remembers Straussian scholars Walter Berns and Harry Jaffa, by an extraordinary coincidence that summons up the idea of Providence, graduate school classmates and students of Leo Strauss, who carried on a long-running and sometimes bitter feud. Joseph Heath on philosophical and economic illiteracy: Unfortunately, there is no single piece of work that sums up what is wrong with the view “wage = marginal productivity = worker’s contribution = moral desert”.
