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Rebecca Tushnet (Georgetown): The First Amendment Walks into a Bar: Trademark Registration and Free Speech. In hindsight, an “American Psycho” looks a lot like us. Thomas Piketty on how social investment can stop jihad: “Social development with equity is how hatred will be defeated”. It’s good that Hamilton will stay on the redesigned $10 — but he needs company. How did we get from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” to Oprah Winfrey’s “spiritual capitalism”? Ann Neumann on cults and capitalism. Patrick Yingling on civil disobedience to overcome corruption: The case of Occupy Wall Street. Descendants of John D. Rockefeller sold their Exxon Mobil Corp. stock and plan to dump all other fossil-fuel investments in the latest move against the industry that made their fortune. All-out warfare is about to break out between Bernie Sanders’ supporters and the political press. Tim Urban on why cryonics makes sense.