Mike Sosteric (Athabascau): From Zoroaster to Star Wars, Jesus to Marx: The Science and Technology of Mass Human Behavior. Timothy Hsiao (Grantham): Why Recreational Drug Use is Immoral. From The Disorder of Things, a symposium on Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire by Duncan Bell. Beliefs about male superiority help explain why more gender-equal societies are more peaceful. “Resistance alone is not enough”: Andrea Peto on women’s rights and illiberal democracies. Why postmodernism is the palate cleanser we need: Our love-to-hate-it relationship with postmodernism may be more important to design progress than we think. Imagining Iraq: Philip Metres on the fifteenth anniversary of the Iraq War. Congress quietly preserves ability to pay sexual harassment settlements with taxpayer money.
