Zachary D. Clopton (Cornell): Judging Foreign States. Andre Broome (Warwick) and Joel Quirk (Witwatersrand): Governing the World at a Distance: The Practice of Global Benchmarking. Mom’s invisible hand: Malcolm Harris reviews Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics by Katrine Marcal. Stereotyped as weak and effeminate, Asian-American men often struggle in a society that has “boyish ideas of what it takes to be a man”: Kelly Kasulis interviews Alex Tizon, author of Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self. Amber Phillips on how the Texas secession debate is getting kind of real. Elizabeth Greenwood on the surprising number of middle-aged white men who think about faking their own deaths. Obama’s war on excessive occupational licensing highlights his increasingly unfashionable brand of liberalism.
