Liane Tanguay (Houston): Sovereign is He Who Knocks: The Neoliberal State of Exception in American Television. Brian D. Earp (Oxford): Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Male Circumcision: Should There Be a Separate Ethical Discourse? Most American boys are circumcised as a matter of course; now, many of them feel violated — should the practice be banned? Omri Y. Marian (Florida): A Conceptual Framework for the Regulation of Cryptocurrencies. Thomas Harper on a brief guide to impractical currencies. Andreas Rahmatian (Glasgow): Money as a Normative Text. Jessa Gamble on how new technologies are emerging that could radically reduce our need to sleep — if we can bear to use them. Nate Cohn on why House Republicans alienate Hispanics: They don’t need them. AJ Vicens on how dark money is taking over judicial elections. Jonathan Chait on how there’s only one thing at stake in the Senate race: Whether Obama can confirm judges and staff his administration. As you head to the polls, remember who wrecked the economy. What can video games tell us about economics? Apparently a lot. Ezra Klein on GamerGate and the politicization of absolutely everything. Dee Lockett on how white men don't catcall — they harass in other ways. Micah Lee: “Ed Snowden taught me to smuggle secrets past incredible danger. Now I teach you”. From Public Seminar, there is a certain sadness about reading Raymond Williams’ The Long Revolution given that we seem to be well into the long counter-revolution; and Dmitri Nikulin on why comedy matters. Ben Ambridge on the psychology behind our fear of Ebola. Is the contemporary state of affairs correctly described as “postmodern”?
