Patricia J. Zettler, Jacob S. Sherkow, and Henry T. Greely (Stanford): 23andMe, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Future of Genetic Testing. Amitai Etzioni (GWU): On Curbing Obesity. From Attunement, a special issue on what exactly constitutes a generation. It was extraordinary to see an article in the Sunday Washington Post telling readers that CBO is often wrong and that its scores may not always be the best basis for policy decisions. Martin O Reilly on ethics, drugs and sport. From Time, a cover story on Obama's Trauma Team: Steven Brill on how an unlikely group of high-tech wizards revived Obama's troubled HealthCare.gov website. Jacob Heilbrunn on the assault on John Judis. Suppose it is possible, through genetic engineering, to modify the genomes of Neanderthal embryos, causing their brains to develop as ours do — would it not be our moral duty to make this modification available to Neanderthal parents who want it? The power of dirt — public toilets: Ilma Molnar on the body, the wall and the politics of space. David Golumbia, author of Cyberlibertarianism: The False Belief in Digital Liberation, on Bitcoin: The cryptopolitics of cryptocurrencies. How do you upset the French? With Judith Butler’s gender theory. Remakes keep flopping, but here are 4 reasons why Hollywood still makes them. Woody Allen, Quentin Tarantino, and the new liberal critique of Hollywood: Isaac Chotiner interviews Mark Harris, author of Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood. Ilham Tohti, the respected Uyghur economist, has been charged with separatism and faces ten years to life in prison in China.
