Richard Ashby Wilson (UConn): Inciting Genocide with Words. Scott Clifford (Houston), Jennifer Jerit (Stony Brook), Carlisle Rainey (SUNY-Buffalo), and Matt Motyl (Virginia): Moral Concerns and Policy Attitudes: Investigating the Influence of Elite Rhetoric. Kim Them Do (UNCTAD): The Way to World Peace via an Integrated Kantian and Buddhist Perspective. Patrick Brown, Jerg Gutmann, and Stefan Voigt (Hamburg): Let the Sunshine in: Why Countries Adopt Freedom of Information Acts. Eoin O'Malley, Iain McMenamin, Kevin Rafter, and Roddy Flynn (Dublin City): Why Are National Parliaments so Unpopular? Journalism, Information and Sentiment. Sabina Lissitsa (Ariel) and Svetlana Chachashvili-Bolotin (RAC): Use of the Internet in Capital Enhancing Ways: Ethnic Differences in Israel and the Role of Language Proficiency. Spider-Man Unmasked: Kirk Semple on the lives behind Times Square cartoon characters. The crooked ladder: Malcolm Gladwell on the criminal’s guide to upward mobility. Michael Oren writes in defense of Zionism: The often reviled ideology that gave rise to Israel has been an astonishing historical success. A visit to the basement where Dungeons & Dragons was born. Did somebody say George Orwell? Owen Holland on how the tolerability of transparency depends, for the most part, on who’s doing the watching (or looking, or seeing) as well as the material interests that motivate such ocular fascinations. The case for defence: The squeeze on global arms spending is ending — but life is likely to keep getting harder for makers of military equipment. Right-wing women are sexier: Cosmo Landesman on the lust that dare not speak its name.
