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One big exception

Seth Lazar (ANU): Javier Bardem and the Indians. Seth Lazar (ANU): In Dubious Battle: Uncertainty and the Ethics of Killing. Jessie D. Turner (USF): Reconsidering the Relationship Between New Mestizaje and New Multiraciality as Mixed-Race Identity. Rik Peels (VU Amsterdam): What Kind of Ignorance Excuses? Two Neglected Issues. Troy J. Scott (RTI): On the Economic Efficiency of Progressive Taxation. Peter N Freswick (Vanderbilt): Artificial Sweetened Beverages and Pediatric Obesity: The Controversy Continues. From Emotion Researcher, five specialists on disgust share their views on the origin and expansion of disgust and on the normative status of disgust in the moral domain. Slaying, yet again, the idea that the languages we speak shape the thoughts we think: Graeme Wood reviews The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language by John McWhorter. Hitler’s airport: Berlin has buried every trace of the Third Reich — with one big exception. Hitler's bookbinder: Michael Shaughnessy reports the untold story of Frieda Thiersch — and the mysteries of her life, her motives and her books. Lessons from 25 years of post-communism: Daniel Treisman on the importance of reform, democracy, and geography. Who was C.H. Fellowes? Amateur sleuth Carmen Nyssen finds a mysterious 19th-century tattoo artist. Ander Monson reviews Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture by Rachel Lee Rubin. The first chapter from Complexity and the Art of Public Policy: Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up by David Colander and Roland Kupers.