Peter Harris (Texas): Global Gatekeepers: How Great Powers Respond to Rising States. Sharon Hannes (Tel Aviv): Super Hedge Fund. Jan-Peter Hartung (SOAS): Who Speaks of What Caliphate? The Indian Khilafat Movement and the Aftermath. From the Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies, Daniel Gorman Jr. (Rochester): Revisiting Joseph Campbell’s The Power of Myth. From The Point, James M. Wilson on the drama of cultural conservatism. Ferguson’s booming white grievance industry: Joan Walsh on Fox News, Darren Wilson and friends. OK, fine — let's talk about “black-on-black” violence. Christopher Ingraham on how three quarters of whites don’t have any non-white friends. Charles Kenny on how earthquakes cost more in rich countries but devastate poor ones. The Force of humor is strong in this book: Catherine Thureson reviews Star Wars: The Unofficial Joke and Riddle Book by R. U. Kidding M.E. There are few phrases I dislike more than “it is what it is” — it grates me something awful; however, if there is one person that would have hated it more than any of us, it’s T. W. Adorno. Jonathan Chait on Cornel West and the insular world of the Obama-hating Left. American Douglas McAuthur McCain — could there be any name less befitting a jihadist? — killed waging jihad for ISIS in Syria. What accounts for this Seinfeldian election year? Annie Lowrey on the election about nothing. Confessions of a grade inflator: Between the grubbing and the blubbering, grading fairly is just not worth the fight. Raphael Boleslavsky and Christopher Cotton on the unrecognised benefits of grade inflation.
