Andrew Kull (Texas): Ponzi, Property, and Luck. Valerio Capraro (Southampton): The Emergence of Altruistic Behaviour in Conflictual Situations (“These results challenge all best-known economic models and suggest that females might be more suitable than males in handling human conflicts”.) David M. Driesen (Syracuse): Legal Theory Lessons from the Financial Crisis. David Livingstone Smith on the essence of evil: You don’t have to be a monster or a madman to dehumanise others — you just have to be an ordinary human being. Winners and losers: America and its friends benefit from falling oil prices; its most strident critics don’t. Kevin Hartnett on screen entertainment before the movies: For centuries before the first motion pictures, audiences sat transfixed by screens in a technology all but forgotten now: “magic lantern” presentations. Is the media obsession with celebrity penises the final wave of feminism? Esther Breger and Hillary Kelly have a talk. Want to create activists? John Sides interviews Hahrie Han, author of How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century. There is no “alternative medicine”: A controversial treatment designed to remove environmental metals from the body might be effective in treating heart disease — will one renegade doctor persuade the rest of the medical establishment to consider it? Diplomacy by design: A new generation of architects is using rail lines, shopping centers, and football fields to keep the peace from Belfast to Baghdad. Samir “Mr. Magazine” Husni: 30 years of teaching and mentoring at the University of Mississippi.
