Zachary Elkins (Texas), Tom Ginsburg (Chicago), and James Melton (UCL): Imagining a World Without the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Sheilagh Ogilvie and Andre W. Carus (Cambridge): Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective (and part 2). Early mod philosophy: Lisa Downing interviewed by Richard Marshall. Hermeneutics and philosophy: The introduction to the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Philosophical Hermeneutics by Jeff Malpas. Thomas Rogers on Berlin's Berghain, the secretive, sex-fueled world of techno's coolest club. As anyone who’s struggled to start a band, get shows, record music, and become a certified rock star knows, coming up with a name is half the challenge — a linguistic take on how we name bands today. Jessica Valenti on the case for free tampons: The cost of a product that half the world’s population needs multiple times a day, every month for approximately 30 years, is simply too much. The anti-court court: David Cole reviews Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution by Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz, In the Balance: Law and Politics on the Roberts Court by Mark Tushnet, and Scalia: A Court of One by Bruce Allen Murphy. The great historic house museum debate: Ruth Graham on the surprising fight over a quirky, dusty, and endangered American institution. Laurence Ball on the Great Recession’s long-term damage. The extremism of the Republican Party may have precipitated Obama’s confidence in unilateralism; to think that the cycle will end here, and that a future president won’t claim more expansive and disturbing powers to selectively enforce the law, requires an optimism not borne out by history.
