Luara Ferracioli (Amsterdam): Family Migration Schemes and Liberal Neutrality: A Dilemma. Ben Bramble (Vienna): Consequentialism about Meaning in Life. Jackson Mills (Alabama): CEO Facial Width Predicts Firm Financial Policies. From Studies in Social and Political Thought, a special issue on debt and obligation. 100 Years 100 Thinkers: The New Republic ranks the minds who defined our century. You’re wrong, you’re wrong, you’re definitely wrong, and I’m probably wrong, too: Hendrik Hertzberg on what it was like to edit The New Republic at its most contentious. Wes Vernon reviews Stop the Coming Civil War: My Savage Truth by Michael Savage. Can new economic thinking solve the next crisis? Matthew Yglesias on 38 maps that explain the global economy. “The largest free municipal WiFi network in the world”: New York City unveils the pay phone of the future — and it does a whole lot more than make phone calls. Zack Colman on the decline and fall of coal. Your virtual self is more boring than you think: Jesse Singal interviews Nick Yee, author of The Proteus Paradox: How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us — And How They Don’t, on how to free our online avatars from real-world constraints. Ta-Nehisi Coates: “Declining to seriously reckon with the rape allegations against Bill Cosby is reckless. And I was once reckless”. How the Sexiest Man Alive’s sausage gets made: Amanda Hess on three decades of what People magazine thinks women want. Matt Bruenig on how Jonathan Gruber reveals the emptiness of fiscal categories. Danny Miller, CEO of Human After All, speaks about his new magazine Weapons of Reason, and his open source project The Publishing Playbook.
