Balazs Bodo (Stanford): You Have No Sovereignty Where We Gather: Wikileaks and Freedom, Autonomy and Sovereignty in the Cloud. June Carbone (Missouri): What Does Bristol Palin Have to Do with Same-Sex Marriage? Japan's Rebound: How unconventional thinking may help Japan recover from disaster. The Font of the Hand: Joshua Cohen on the processing of words, from scriptorium to LongPen. Juan Cole on the top ten ways that Libya 2011 is not Iraq 2003. Some LGBT would-be parents find ways to thwart foreign bigotry — while others simply walk away. From Telos, an interview with Marcia Pally on "new evangelicals" in the United States and elsewhere (and more); an interview with Peter Candler, author of "Outside the Church There is No Death"; and an interview with David Pan on Carl Schmitt's Hamlet or Hecuba: The Intrusion of the Time into the Play. Don't end agricultural subsidies — fix them. How we train our cops to fear Islam: There aren’t nearly enough counterterrorism experts to instruct all of America’s police — so we got these guys instead. A review of Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave and Exterminate Others by David Livingstone Smith. Whitens, brightens and confuses: Stores stock so many types of toothpaste, consumers are annoyed — some wonder, does brand matter? Welcome to Tony's Kansas City: Where douchebags roam City Hall, tits and tipsters rule, and one broke-ass blogger covers it all from, yes, his mom's basement. Although the public knows that losses are necessary — the status quo is unsustainable — these losses will still hurt to an irrational degree; what we need now are politicians willing to make us angry. A review of Sherry Wolf's Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation. The ability to cooperate, to make individuals subordinate their strong sense of self-interest to the needs of the group, lies at the root of human achievement. A look at 6 things that annoy you every day (explained by science).
