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Excavating an echo

Edward Castronova (Indiana): The Renaissance of Natural Law: Tolkien, Fantasy, and Video Games. Daniel Kreiss and Zeynep Tufekci (UNC): Occupying the Political: Occupy Wall Street, Collective Action, and the Rediscovery of Pragmatic Politics. Enigma of revolt: Andy Merrifield on Kafka on Occupy. A metaphor for humanity: An international symposium discusses the relevance of St. Augustine's City of God. Omar Malik reviews Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger by Harvey Molotch. Being defensive: David McCandelss on how a psychotherapist sees you. James Parker on what the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon says about the modern sexual condition. How to successfully release a conservative film: Movie distributors of 2016: Obama's America, which is on track to be one of the five highest-grossing documentaries of all time, focused their initial marketing strategy on a Houston release. Bernard Avishai reviews The Crisis of Zionism by Peter Beinart. Excavating an echo: An art historian and an audio engineer seek to recreate a sound lost for centuries.