A new issue of Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology is out. Ronald Osborn (USC): Seyla Benhabib, Wendell Berry, and the Question of Migrant and Refugee Rights. From TNR, Eric Cantor last week became the highest-ranking Republican poobah to say, pretty much outright, that we need to soak the poor; and Florida Governor Rick Scott uses line-item veto on program to fund rape crisis centers, a preview of what a Romney/Ryan agenda would do to America. What makes heroic strife: Computer models that can predict the outbreak and spread of civil conflict are being developed. From Cato Unbound, Brandon Garrett on learning what we can from DNA. The nation-state and its discontents: Ulrich Beck on the reality of cosmopolitanism. From Transcript, a special issue on the literatures of stateless nations. Does this smartphone make me look stupid? Meet the "ladyphones". It is perhaps not widely appreciated that the Cold War was actually won in the summer of 1959 by the noted lounge-chair designers Charles and Ray Eames. Which direction now? Just ask the north-facing map in your head.
