Stuart M. Shieber (Harvard): There Can Be No Turing-Test-Passing Memorizing Machines. Neil Hammerton (Open): Should I Be Mother Theresa or Howard Hughes? An Egalitarian Evaluation. Michael J. Graetz (Columbia): The Tax Reform Road Not Taken — Yet. Christopher Ketcham on the troubling case of Chris Hedges: Pulitzer winner, Lefty hero, plagiarist. Ted Scheinman on George Will and the latest in rape-denialism. Here are 11 political lessons from Eric Cantor’s loss. Everybody hates Eric Cantor: A roundup. Charles Pierce on the friends of Dave Brat. Ethan Watters on the germ theory of democracy, dictatorship, and all your most cherished beliefs: Is culture just a side effect of the struggle to avoid disease? Neila Orr on how gossip blogs became the main public record for black culture. Jet magazine, staple of black press, to end print product, switch to online-only format. Fox or “moral imbecile”? Benjamin Welton on William Edward Hickman and the murder of Marion Parker. Why is the American far Right more violent than the American far Left? They've killed 40 people since September 11. Brad Plumer on how the US stopped its fisheries from collapsing. Amy Novogratz and Mike Velings on the end of fish: The ones we like to eat are rapidly vanishing from the ocean. Jacob Soll on the vanished grandeur of accounting: Once, bookkeepers were valorized in great art. You can’t say that: Is it time to write the epitaph for epithets? Thomas Kinkade’s death shocked his legions of fans — not only had the Painter of Light died at 54, but the cause was alcohol and Valium; how did the evangelical darling fall so far?
