Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia (Penn State): Is Immigration Law National Security Law? Donald Trump argues that no one like him should be allowed into the United States. Alex Griswold on how Donald Trump’s newest Muslim ban is political correctness gone mad. What is extremist belief? An answer from medieval Islamic philosophy. The great natural experiment of this election cycle: Across a variety of dimensions, Donald Trump is an extreme candidate — this is awesome for political science. Bad news, ladies: The “pink tax” starts at birth. Romantic bureaucracy: Boris Groys on Alexander Kojeve’s post-historical wisdom. Tools of modern terror: C.J. Chivers on how the AK-47 and AR-15 evolved into rifles of choice for mass killers. Euphemisms are like underwear, best changed frequently — what work are they doing in our language and why do they expire?
