Alex Schulman (Duke): From Lear to Leviathan: On States of Nature and Social Contracts in Shakespeare's Politics. Donald H. Stone (Baltimore) and Linda S. Stone (Towson): Dangerous and Disruptive or Simply Cutting Class; When Should Schools Kick Kids to the Curb? An Empirical Study of School Suspension and Due Process Rights. From the latest issue of Logos, Stephen Eric Bronner (Rutgers): On Judging American Foreign Policy: Human Rights, Political Realism, and the Arrogance of Power; Joseph Lowndes (Oregon): Looking Forward to the History of the Tea Party; and Plato’s Gospel: Vincent Czyz on evidence that the Gospels are quite clearly a species of fiction — which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The cataclysmic extinctions that scoured Earth 200 million years ago might have been easier to trigger than expected, with potentially troubling contemporary implications. An interview with John McWhorter, author of What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be. Daron Acemoglu on how cooperation evolves: History, expectations, and leadership. A review of Unfinished Projects: Decolonization and the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre by Paige Arthur. Should black women learn to share their men? The benefit of doubt: We shouldn’t be afraid of being uncertain. Life out there: Darpa, the government agency that helped invent the Internet, is studying what it would take to send humans to another star. What happens when the band stops playing? Around the world, symphony orchestras are threatened as public subsidies dry up, but great cities need them more than ever. Is female masturbation really the last sexual taboo? The right to speak out loudly: How journalists struggle to live up to professional standards while maintaining a strong stance on controversial issues.
