Jack Michael Beermann (BU): Government's Obligation to Provide for the Health, Safety and Welfare of Its Citizens. Judea Pearl (UCLA): The Curse of Free-Will and the Paradox of Inevitable Regret. Robert J. Currie Schulich (Dalhousie): The Protection of Human Rights in the Suppression of Transnational Crime. Danny Rye (Birkbeck): The Concept of Power in the Analysis of Organisations with Social and Political Goals. From the Appendix, a special issue on “Futures of the Past”, about how past generations have reckoned their collective futures. Civics at the cineplex: John F Settich on how Americans learn democracy at the movies. Britt Peterson on the long strange journey of “uber”: The company of the moment picked a name with a very pungent history. Stan Nadel reviews Antisemitism and the American Far Left by Stephen H. Norwood. West Africans are finally receiving the same experimental Ebola drug given to Europeans. Jason Millman on why the drug industry hasn’t come up with an Ebola cure: The tough economic reality of funding treatment for “neglected” diseases. The “Asshole Effect”: Sarah Burnside reviews The Life of I: The New Culture of Narcissism by Anne Manne. Todd C. Frankel on the men and women behind “the most amazing economics site in the world”: FRED started as a modest newsletter — it's now every wonk's secret weapon. Greg Howard on how America is not for black people. Google’s company's attempt to "disrupt" the car industry with self-driving cars is an embrace of the status quo — we need innovation in mass transit instead. Glass, Darkly: Someone is keeping an eye on the future.
