Jeroen P. de Jong (EUR) and Petru L. Curseu and Roger Th. A. J. Leenders (Tilburg): When Do Bad Apples Not Spoil the Barrel? Negative Relationships in Teams, Team Performance, and Buffering Mechanisms. Michelle Kundmueller (Notre Dame): On the Political Import of Penelope: Gender-Neutral Virtue and the Marriage of Eros and Friendship. Who killed Cat Fancy? Abraham Riesman investigates. Jake Goldman on experiments in extreme luxury. In a world built on myth, we can’t ignore the reactionary politics at the heart of Tolkien’s Middle Earth. Jennifer Hadden on how protests shape policy by shaping protesters: Activists are beginning to figure out that protests are important because they reshape protesters' identities and preferences. Rolling Stone’s discredited story on campus rape has been blamed on a tendency to believe assault accusations too quickly — really, the opposite may be true. Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, on why the CIA torturers should be prosecuted. Eric Posner on why Obama won’t prosecute torturers: They clearly violated the law. The New Republic dug its own grave: Alex Gourevitch and Corey Robin on how the magazine's centrist-neoliberal politics embraced forces that eventually destroyed it. The rise of the tea party against Obama may be, in part, a neurotic reaction — but it also signals the appropriate, full resumption of the major argument of American history. Chris Weigant interviews Joseph E. Uscinski and Joseph M. Parent, authors of American Conspiracy Theories. International negotiators at the Lima climate change talks have agreed on a plan to fight global warming that would for the first time commit all countries to cutting their greenhouse gas emissions.
