A new issue of Eurasia Border Review is out. Jeremy Waldron (NYU): What Do Philosophers Have Against Dignity? Tara Morrissey (Sydney): The New Real: Iggy Azalea and the Reality Performance. Katie Zavadski on how more than 3,000 Europeans are now fighting for ISIS. Is the Islamic State committing genocide? G.D.Blunt investigates. Michael G. Waltz and Alyssa Kelly on ten lessons from the Afghan war about how to fight ISIS. Kalev Leetaru on why big data missed the early warning signs of Ebola. Jon Cohen on how to stop Ebola: Could survivors safely care for the infected? Managing a nightmare: The CIA reveals how it watched over the destruction of Gary Webb. Michael Dobbs on the real story of the "football" that follows the president everywhere: Take a peek at the mysterious black briefcase that has accompanied every U.S. president since John F. Kennedy. Right-wing truck dispatcher Brandon Finnigan is America’s fairest new election night vote counter. For the first time in modern history, the eastern basin of the South Aral Sea has completely dried. Dean Baker on how The Washington Post is a mess: Social Security edition. Stephen M. Walt on how to justify any policy, no matter how bad it might be: A handy 10-step guide to defending yourself, your country, or your boss. Contesting equality: Daniel T. Rodgers reviews American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation by Michael Kazin and Why America Needs a Left: A Historical Argument by Eli Zaretsky. No, the Founders were not Tea Partiers. Author Rachel Lu promotes something called "virtue-interested libertarians", or as we call them around here "the worst of both worlds".
