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A problem more complex

A new issue of New Politics is out. From Daedalus, Douglas S. Massey (Princeton): America's Immigration Policy Fiasco: Learning from Past Mistakes. From PS: Political Science and Politics, a special section on Louis Fisher is free online. From Guernica, Patrick Wrigley on how the protests in Turkey, and the government’s response, highlight a problem more complex than a single micro-managing autocrat; and waiting for Ataturk: Jennifer MacKenzie on Taksim, tear gas, and loving a tyrant because he feeds you. Hazem Kandil om the end of Islamism. From Crooked Timber, Rich Yeselson, John Ahlquist and Margaret Levi debate “fortress unionism”. Forget Rachel McAdams, Paul Krugman is the “mean girl” of economics. Marisa Linton, author of Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution, on what we can learn from the French Revolution. Scott McLemee on fall and winter scholarly books. Jack Shafer writes in praise of tabloid TV. Political violence and privilege: Matthew Harwood on why violent right-wing extremism doesn’t scare Americans. From The New Inquiry, Moira Weigel and Mal Ahern on further materials toward a theory of the man-child: Left theory’s response to the feminization of labor has been to cry for mommy. Jimmy Stamp on the evolution of the treble clef. Harrison Wolf on GettyCritics: Pointing out flaws in stock photography.