A new issue of the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy is out. Ellen D. Katz (Michigan): Hobby Lobby and the Pathology of Citizens United. William J. Luther (Kenyon) and Lawrence H. White (George Mason): Can Bitcoin Become a Major Currency? Andrew Rudalevige (Bowdoin): The Letter of the Law: Administrative Discretion and Obama’s Domestic Unilateralism. Vladislav Davidzon is on the road with Bernard-Henri Levy, the planet’s last superstar French intellectual. Arthur Chu on mansplaining, whitesplaining, richsplaining: the way you can tell someone who’s “privileged” is the unconscious belief that they have something to say, and that everyone will listen. Michael Brady reviews Unmodern Philosophy and Modern Philosophy by John Dewey. Laurie Penny on what the “transgender tipping point” really means. Sean Carroll on why physicists should stop saying silly things about philosophy. Ashutosh Jogalekar on how philosophy begins where physics ends, and physics begins where philosophy ends. McKenzie Wark on Heidegger and geology: “The project now is not to apply the old grad school bag o’tricks to the Anthropocene, but rather to apply the Anthropocene to a root-and-branch rethinking of how we make knowledge outside the sciences and social sciences”. Your taxes are going up — you just don’t know it yet. Bentham's revolutionary views on sex have been kept hidden for too long: Faramerz Dabhoiwala reviews Of Sexual Irregularities by Jeremy Bentham. How fair is life? Nothing succeeds like success — and science has now proved it. From The Editorial Review, an interview with Evan Goldstein, managing editor of The Chronicle Review and of Arts & Letters Daily.
