From the inaugural issue of Public Reason, Hillel Steiner (Manchester): Left Libertarianism and the Ownership of Natural Resources; Reidar Maliks (Harvard): Acting Through Others: Kant and the Exercise View of Representation; Timothy Waligore (Smith): Cosmopolitan Right, Indigenous Peoples, and the Risks of Cultural Interaction; Annabelle Lever (LSE): Is Compulsory Voting Justified?; Endre Begby (Oslo) and J. Peter Burgess (PRIO): Human Security and Liberal Peace; Andras Miklos (Harvard): Nationalist Criticisms of Cosmopolitan Justice; and Sirine Shebaya (JHU): Global and Local Sovereignties. From Revue Internationale des Livres et des Idees, an interview with Nancy Fraser on global justice and the renewal of critical theory. We're all torturers now: Will anything about the U.S. torture scandal ever scandalize us again? Mark Danner on the paradoxes of the torture scandal. From New Internationalist, the Age of Possibility: David Ransom reckons the meltdown could turn out to have made another world possible. From THES, boring and dismal sciences: Funding for economics and other related disciplines is being cut just when we need their insights most and are warming to their popularisers; and the world isn't made of equations — we should keep alert against mathematical seduction.
