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Eureka moment

Marie-Laure Djelic (ESSEC): Spreading Ideas to Change the World: Inventing and Institutionalizing the Neoliberal Think Tank. Richard Bellamy (UCL): Norberto Bobbio. Andreas Follesdal (Oslo): Okin, Susan Moller (1946-2004). Utpal Bhattacharya (HKUST), Weiyu Kuo (NCCU), and Tse-Chun Lin and Jing Zhao (Hong Kong): Do Superstitious Traders Lose Money? Nat Hansen (Reading): Contemporary Ordinary Language Philosophy. From Portal, a special issue on Stigma and Exclusion in Cross-Cultural Contexts. Ezra Klein on 22 maps and charts that will surprise you. Mark Strauss on why it's a mistake to call ISIL “medieval”. Ming-Qi Chu on why we need Anita Hill. How do you change someone’s mind about abortion? Tell them you had one — Sasha Issenberg on gay marriage, Planned Parenthood, and a eureka moment in the new science of persuasion. The first chapter from Governing Knowledge Commons, ed. Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison and Katherine J. Strandburg. Who is Saul Alinsky, and why does the right hate him so much? Tim Dickinson goes inside the Koch brothers' toxic empire: Together, Charles and David Koch control one of the world's largest fortunes, which they are using to buy up our political system — but what they don't want you to know is how they made all that money. Kurt Eichenwald on the plots to destroy America. Reuben Fischer-Baum and Samer Kalaf on how Hollywood has destroyed America. The ethical Machiavelli: Erica Benner interviewed by Richard Marshall. Why don't we treat teeth like the rest of our bodies? Dental care is excluded from most insurance plans for a bizarre and antiquated reason, and millions of people suffer as a result.