Nathan Ballantyne (Fordham) and Justin Tosi (Arizona): David Foster Wallace on the Good Life. Pnina Alon-Shenker (Ryerson) and Guy Davidov (HUJI): Organizing: Should the Employer Have a Say? Doron Taussig (Penn): Living Proof: Autobiographical Political Argument in We are the 99 Percent and We are the 53 Percent. Maritza Reyes (Florida A&M): Professional Women Silenced by Men-Made Norms. The US is a helpless bystander on Greece: Washington has urged EU to write off Athens’ debts in return for restructuring, to no avail. Simon Kuper on how “vision” messed up Europe: Today the European project consists of trying to digest the euro. Koch-backed group calls for no more national parks. Heather Digby Parton on how Ann Coulter has fallen from grace. Somebody forgot to tell Bush, Cruz and Rubio the GM bailout worked. Can Medium replace the op-ed page? The site is working to establish itself as a platform where politicians can get out their message and interact with voters. Corey Pein on the unbearable emptiness of politics as code. David D. Perlmutter writes in defense of ethnography: It has pluses and minuses, as the Alice Goffman controversy highlights — but the methodology complements other approaches in crucial ways. Josh Armstrong reviews Seeing Things as They Are: A Theory of Perception by John Searle. The Justice Department has started a civil antitrust investigation into several yet-unnamed airlines. The first chapter from Invitation to Peace Studies by Houston Wood.
