Ganesh Sitaraman (Vanderbilt): Credibility and War Powers. Colin O'Reilly (Wisconsin) and Benjamin W. Powell (Texas Tech): War and the Growth of Government. Josep M Colomer (Georgetown): What a World Assembly Could Look Like. All for one: World government is back, in geopolitics and in the academy, but what does the future hold for it? Joe Coscarelli on all the Americans who have tried (and failed) to join ISIS so far. The calculus of contagion: In the battle against disease, the difference between a raging epidemic and a passing fever comes down to a single number. Benjamin Hale on the most terrifying thing about Ebola: The disease threatens humanity by preying on humanity. Margaret Chan, the director-general of the World Health Organization, says Ebola is “greatest peacetime challenge” in U.N. history. Dinesh D'Souza is planning his prison memoir: The conservative firebrand speaks as he awaits sentencing for campaign fraud. Who’s on trial, Eichmann or Arendt? Seyla Benhabib on how Adolf Eichmann was banal precisely because he was a fanatical anti-Semite, not despite it. Stop talking ’bout my generation: It’s time to take a stand against millennial hucksterism. From EPSN.com, Don Van Natta Jr. and Kevin Van Valkenburg on the Rice case: Purposeful misdirection by team, scant investigation by NFL. Rice, Peterson NFL scandals are really about liberals' plan to pussify America, say Rightbloggers. Why is Thomas Piketty's 700-page book a bestseller? Four experts — Brad DeLong, Tyler Cowen, Stephanie Kelton and Emanuel Derman — take on why that is (and more by Ingrid Robeyns). Hillary Clinton is actually a radical Alinsky disciple, and after biding her time through roughly 45 years of mainstream Democratic politics, the hidden leftist will finally emerge.
