The inaugural issue of Policy and Complex Systems is out, Calestous Juma (Harvard): Complexity, Innovation, and Development: Schumpeter Revisited. David W. Glazier (Loyola): Destined for an Epic Fail: The Problematic Guantanamo Military Commissions. Glenn Greenwald on how the “Cuban Twitter” scam is a drop in the Internet propaganda bucket. Hillel Aron on how Left-wing darling Pacifica Radio is sliding into the abyss. Carole Cadwalladr on Charlotte Laws' fight with Hunter Moore, the internet's revenge porn king. Michelle Dean on the case for making revenge porn a federal crime. Annie P. Waldman goes inside the Kafkaesque world of the US's “Little Guantánamos”. From TNR, Mark Schmitt on how John Roberts didn't kill campaign finance rules — modern politics did; and Noam Scheiber writes in defense of the bed-wetting liberal: Democrats freak out about every setback — and it's a good thing. But is it art? The New Criterion on context, meaning, and vandalism. “I F*cking Hate @RuPaul”: Filmmaker, writer, and trans activist Andrea James on the current state of post-disruption journalism and its unhealthy addiction to Twitter, and LGBT brain drain. Alexander Lanoszka on why the U.S. should not make troop commitments it might not be able to keep in Eastern Europe. Ready for Rand: Americans hate Rand Paul’s libertarianism — they just don’t know it yet. Free to do the right thing: Andre van Loon reviews Between Philosophy and Literature: Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject by Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan.
