Daphna Hacker (Tel-Aviv): Disappointed “Heirs” as a Socio-Legal Phenomenon. Kees Bastmeijer (Tilburg) and Tina Tin (ASOC): Antarctica, a Wilderness Continent for Science: The “Public's Dream” as a Mission Impossible? From Law, Ethics and Philosophy, Joanna Firth (Oxford): What’s So Shameful about Shameful Revelations? 1p Book Review: Nige reviews How to Be an Alien by George Mikes. Danny Vinik on Ron Fournier's elitist bias in one sentence. Michael Schapira interviews Paul Buhle, author of Bohemians: A Graphic History. Low self-esteem is good for you: Anneli Rufus on how we’ve been too successful at making people feel good. Dylan Matthews on the case for abolishing the TSA. From the Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, twins philosophically separated at birth? Tom Strong reviews Groundless Ground: A Study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger by Lee Braver. How the cosmos will meet its demise: An excerpt from Nothing: Surprising Insights Everywhere from Zero to Oblivion. Don't buy the “sharing economy” hype: Airbnb and Uber are facilitating rip-offs. Did Sy Hersh aid Syria with unprofessional journalism? Muhammad Idrees Ahmad on Syria, Sy Hersh, and the art of mass-crime revisionism. Docile and disciplined: Justene Musin on what it takes to become America’s Next Top Model. It makes you feel very lucky that a thinker of the caliber of Quin Hillyer chose to bless us with an essay on the very most vital issue of them all: the fundamental right of white male conservatives to use language that is egregiously offensive to others. Rightbloggers talk conservative "reform", but who's listening?
