Hanna Filipczyk (Nicolaus Copernicus): Why is Tax Avoidance Immoral? Ethics, Metaethics and Taxes. Andrew Smith (Drexel): In Defense of Homelessness. Sara Rankin (Seattle): A Homeless Bill of Rights (Revolution). From HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, a special section on How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human by Eduardo Kohn. From the Baffler, L.A. Kauffman on the disruption this time; and Willie Osterweil on Hollybaba’s Blockbusters: If movies can tell us anything about the internal lives of typical film industry executives, it’s that they like to feel like the most important people in any room, like they’re doing everyone else a favor by granting a meeting. Laurence Tribe, one of the nation’s most respected constitutional scholars, sells out to nation’s largest coal company. From The Mississippi Valley Historical Review (Dec., 1951), David W. Noble on The New Republic and the Idea of Progress, 1914-1920 (free access at JSTOR Daily). Here is a dialogue on a focus group from the Unfogged commentariat on the New Republic. Is livestreaming the future of media, or the future of activism? Adrian Chen reports from Ferguson, and your laptop screen. Time to dump Dixie: With Mary Landrieu’s ignominious exit, the Democrats will have lost their last senator in the Deep South, and that’s a good thing — they should write it off because they don’t need it. If you have ever wondered why Justin Bieber has turned out to be such a little shit, you need to look no further than his father. Dylan Scott on how the Right-wing media finally Benghazified Obamacare. Tom Tomorrow on the Right-wing lessons learned. An article in Sunday Styles will do more for Bolshevism in America than an entire issue of @jacobinmag.
