Maria Theresia Starzmann (McGill): The Materiality of Forced Labor: An Archaeological Exploration of Punishment in Nazi Germany. Jonathan Kulick and James E. Prieger (Pepperdine) and Mark A.R. Kleiman (NYU): Unintended Consequences of Cigarette Prohibition, Regulation, and Taxation. “I’m no longer afraid”: 35 women tell their stories about being assaulted by Bill Cosby, and the culture that wouldn’t listen. There goes the neighborhood: Rick Perlstein on the Obama library in Chicago. Tara Kadioglu on why slow thinking wins: Many decisions and policies are created with intuitive-but-wrong approaches. Will intellectual combat ever top William Buckley vs. Gore Vidal? Running aground on the shoals of America’s colossal self-regard: Ryan Cooper on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ surprising explanation of climate change. Jihadi John “on the run in Syria after becoming terrified ISIS chiefs have no use for him and will subject him to same fate as his victims”. Attention, people: Your phone should never make noise in public.
