Hussein Rashid (Hofstra): Free Speech is Free for Whom? Devin Thomas Kenney (Michigan State): How the West Was Bought: How a “Simple” Payment to Compensate Local Governments Became an Uncontrollable Federal Subsidy. David Schleicher (George Mason): Welcome to New Columbia: The Fiscal, Economic and Political Consequences of Statehood for D.C. From the Polish Psychological Bulletin, does communal context bring the worst in narcissists? Beenish Ahmed on the truth about how King Abdullah treated women, including his own daughters. Glenn Greenwald compares Obama's reaction to the deaths of King Abdullah and Hugo Chavez. Eastern Ukraine is slipping back into all-out war. Larry Lessig is a UFO on the American intellectual scene, and has put his body on the line, for a free culture, a free Internet, free knowledge, and above all a free political system. America’s long holiday: Suzy Hansen reviews The Americanization of Narcissism by Elizabeth Lunbeck. Noam Scheiber on De Blasio, Obama and a flawed vision of liberalism: The mayor favored identity groups over economic populism. Charles Koch: We’re just getting started. Brian Feldman on the triumphant rise of the shitpic. With Hollywood spending millions on new versions of age-old characters, from Frozen’s Snow Queen to Cinderella, fairytales are more popular than ever — but they’ve had to adapt, with lots of dark twists and no more sweet, biddable girls.
