Claudio Benzecry (UConn) and Randall Collins (UPenn): The High of Cultural Experience: Toward a Microsociology of Cultural Consumption. Maximiliano Korstanje (Palermo): The Anthropology of Dark Tourism: Exploring the Contradictions of Capitalism. Ronald Weitzer (George Washington): New Directions in Research on Human Trafficking. Michelle Madden Dempsey (Villanova): Decriminalizing Victims of Sex Trafficking. When whites get a free pass: Ian Ayres on how research shows white privilege is real. This may be the way to eliminate the biases white students don’t even know they have. David Shulman on Israel: The ugly truth. Dan Pfeiffer on how Meerkat will change the 2016 election for every campaign, reporter and voter. Thanassis Cambanis on why ISIS’s destruction of antiquities hurts so much: The answer begins with a senseless loss of life now accentuated by a crude erasing of the historical record. The rise of the Kardashians: Kate Dries on how a family created a magazine cover dynasty. Richard Berman, mastermind of the world’s most despicable PR campaigns, has a new job. You belong to me: Laura Miller on how the fanfiction boom is reshaping the power dynamic between creators and consumers. Remember that time Obama almost nuked Charleston? Robert Tracinski on net neutrality: If Mark Cuban thinks this is the first time real life has imitated Ayn Rand’s fiction, he needs to be paying a little more attention — Atlas has been shrugging for a long, long time.
