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Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams (Gettysburg): “Pullin’ Rank”: School Violence and Neocolonial Hegemonic Masculinity. Tomas Petracek (Hradec Kralove): Man, Values and the Dynamics of Medieval Society: Anthropological Concepts of the Middle Ages in a Transcultural Perspective. Robert Michael Shoptaw (Mississippi): M’Naghten Is a Fundamental Right: Why Abolishing the Traditional Insanity Defense Violates Due Process. Clinton Foundation-palooza hurtles toward its Vince Foster moment. Max Ehrenfreund on one reason Clinton’s finances might not damage her in the campaign: Unless they're prepared to answer questions about who their own donors are, GOP candidates may hesitate to criticize Clinton on the issue. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on how the Army’s all-women special ops teams show us how we’ll win tomorrow’s wars: The military’s Cultural Support Teams cemented the importance of putting women in forward-deployed military roles. Harold Hamm, the billionaire CEO of Continental Resources, told a dean at the University of Oklahoma that he wanted earthquake researchers dismissed. Was the Iraq war a crime or a mistake? Yes. James Fallows on the right and wrong questions about the Iraq war. Stop sanitizing the history of the run-up to Iraq War. Taxi medallion markets collapse across America: Uber may be rapacious, exploitative corporate scum, but they're knocking the bottom out of one of the most corrupt “markets” in the country.