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The wreckage of short-termism

Menachem Mautner (Tel Aviv): From "Honor" to "Dignity": How Should a Liberal State Treat Non-Liberal Cultural Groups? The introduction to The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership by Linda Bosniak. What’s a depression, Daddy? How talk of money is a language of love. The N-word is flourishing among Generation Hip-Hop Latinos: Why should we care now? A review of Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century by Chris Spannos. From banking to the climate, the wreckage of short-termism is stark, and the need for a 100-year committee is plain. Will there be blood: Will falling oil prices cause civil wars? James Gustave Speth on the specter that is haunting American environmentalism — the specter of failure. A review of American Rifle: A Biography by Alexander Rose. How costly is diversity? Introducing affirmative action causes a substantial increase in the number of female competitors. From MAA, a review of Mathematical Knowledge. From Taki's Magazine, James Kalb on the tyranny of tolerance. From FT, Philip Stephens on how globalisation and the new nationalism collide. A review of Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood. A review of Not in My Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy by Julie Burchill.  A review of Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba by Tom Gjelten.