From Fletcher Security Review, Alexander Tabarrok (George Mason) and Alex Nowrasteh (Cato): Privateers! Their History and Future. Eyal Zamir (HUJ): Cognitive Psychology, Commonsense Morality, and the Law. Elyse Platt (Queen’s): What Makes the Good Life Good? A Comparison Between Ancient and Contemporary Conceptions of Pleasure and Eudaimonia. Mahrad Almotahari (UIC) and Adam Hosein (Colorado): Is Anything Just Plain Good? Jonathan Chait on why Benjamin Netanyahu lost his mind. G-Men as literary critics: Gayle Rogers reviews F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature by William J. Maxwell. Leon Neyfakh on how requiring too much training hurts workers and consumers alike: It’s great to be a highly qualified professional — but critics say excessive licensing demands have a cost for everyone else. Catalogs, after years of decline, are revamped for changing times. We, of all creatures, should appreciate the perversity, as well as the clockwork precision, of biology: Barbara Ehrenreich on dystopian biology. Kevin Drum on what’s at the heart of the crisis in Greece. How will 2016 campaign press handle GOP climate deniers? The conspiracy theorists are right: Research shows nations really do go to war over oil. Ariel Bogle on how technology is changing the family tree. Chris Ayres on the truth about Dan Bilzerian: Five seconds of looped video were all it took to make Dan Bilzerian an icon.
