From Cosmos and History, a special issue on Foundations of Mind: Cognition and Consciousness. K. P. Purnhagen (Erasmus): Social Market Economy Is not an Oxymoron. Timothy Burns (Baylor): Strauss on the Religious and Intellectual Situation of the Present. John E. Garen (Kentucky) and Jeff R. Clark (Tennessee): Trust and the Growth of Government. Vincent Chetail (HEI): The Human Rights of Migrants in General International Law: From Minimum Standards to Fundamental Rights. From Logos, Stephen R. Shalom on One State or Two States: Prospects, possibilities, and politics. Alex J. Bellamy on the Responsibility to Protect and the 2014 conflict in Gaza. The waste of war: Jeffrey D. Sachs on why global instability today does not have to end as badly as it did in 1914. Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke on mental floss, the magazine that breaks all the rules of publishing. Why is the media obsessed with gender bending? Erin Vargo wonders. The Fed is the most important actor in the U.S. economy, but no one cares. J. Bradford DeLong argues that the US will face a dangerous world unless the Federal Reserve fulfills its global role. From The Northwest Review of Books, a look at how The London Scene offers a playful glimpse of Virginia Woolf’s prodigious talents as a writer — it should not be read as a substitute for her more serious work, but as a diversion from it. Salus Journal is a peer-reviewed open access e-journal for the publication of law enforcement and security agencies, as well as research findings and discussion papers regarding emergency management and public safety. How did cool become such a big deal? It’s more than a word — it’s an attitude and a lifestyle. Brian Beutler on one of the great dialogues on leadership of our time.
