A new issue of continent. is out. Benjamin A. Oppenheim (UC-Berkeley), Juan F. Vargas (Rosario) and Michael Weintraub (Georgetown): Learning How (Not) to Fire a Gun: Combatant Training and Civilian Victimization. An interview with Malcolm Gladwell, academic groupie. Theodore Dalrymple on dictatorship — the wave of the future? The first chapter from Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living by Melissa Lane. A review of Suicide: The Philosophical Dimensions by Michael Cholbi. Did life begin with a planetary mega-organism? From The Objective Standard, an interview with Alex Epstein, founder of Center for Industrial Progress. People rationalize situations they're stuck with, but rebel when they think there's an out. A review of Visual Storytelling: Inspiring a New Visual Language. George Scialabba on how Christopher Hitchens must often have reflected sardonically on his celebrity. Is Assad crazy? Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith investigate. From America, an interview with Robert P. George. Julianne Escobedo on why "liberal Hollywood" is a myth. Can science solve — really solve — the problem of beauty? The Texas Rangers and how they made George Bush presidential: An excerpt from Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years by Russ Baker. Warning: Health warnings may be hazardous to your health. Did India and China escape the Black Death? Eric Banks on how an unlikely friendship with a Vichy collaborator complicates our understanding of Gertrude Stein. Why did studying intelligence become taboo? Somewhere along the way, the very idea of intelligence became politicized. Here are 5 reasons you don't miss your 20s when they're over.
