archive

Struggle to understand

Peter H. Huang and Corie Lynn Rosen (Colorado): The Zombie Lawyer Apocalypse (“This article uses a popular cultural framework to address the near-epidemic levels of depression, decision-making errors, and professional dissatisfaction that studies document are prevalent among many law students and lawyers today”.) Do France’s intellectuals have a Muslim problem? Robert Zaretsky on Houellebecq, Charlie Hebdo, and the French struggle to understand how 5 million citizens fit into the Fifth Republic. French hate speech laws are less simplistic than you think; in truth, all liberal democracies forbid some speech. Tim Parks on the limits of satire. Charlie Hebdo meets The Interview: A. Carl LeVan on what political science has to say about issues raised in contemporary political satire. The problem for conservative health reformers is that for all the plans floating around, there's little evidence Republicans care enough about health reform to pay its cost. Why do so many Americans hold views that are completely at odds with, and completely unaffected by, actual experience? Paul Krugman on hating good government. Scott Kaufman on 12 statements by Martin Luther King Jr. you won’t see conservatives post on Facebook. What is it about hackers and sexy selfies? Martin Hirst wonders. Girls goes to Iowa, humiliation ensues: Erin Keane on why pop culture hates MFA programs.