Amy J. Sepinwall (Penn): Citizen Responsibility and the Reactive Attitudes ("This paper takes seriously the notion that individuals may bear responsibility for the transgressions of their group even where they do not bear the hallmarks of individual culpability"). A review of What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers. In the Face of Death: 52% of the Christians who have completed this activity think the murder of children is sometimes morally justified — do you agree with them? MacGyvering in Haiti: Teaching engineering skills helps Haitians help themselves. How the Right brought down ACORN: A review of Seeds of Change by John Atlas. Is the west still the best? The west still rules, but this will change in the coming decades; indeed, geography may cease to matter (and more). A review of Logic and How It Gets That Way by Dale Jacquette. Imagine that: Jean Kazez goes Gaga in her regular arts column. Peter Bergen on why the U.S. can't find Osama Bin Laden. GeoCurrent on the surprising geography of international tourism. Tim Heffernan on the political phrase of the year and the foreseeable future. From H-Net, a review of Ruling the World? Constitutionalism, International Law, and Global Governance. Sergio Aragones never dreamed that his simple pantomime cartoons would find a home at Mad magazine, where satire and parody — cartoons with words — always ruled. Perhaps it's no surprise that government employees can't fight the urge to pry into the private lives of high-profile figures using something they do have: access to vast digital repositories of sensitive personal information. Appeasing the Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov: Who's afraid of the ruler of the Silk Road? Michael Barker reviews The Political Economy of Media and Power.
