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Dubious at best

A new issue of Numeracy is out. Donald J. Kochan (Chapman): You Say You Want a (Nonviolent) Revolution, Well Then What? Translating Western Thought, Strategic Ideological Cooptation, and Institution Building for Freedom for Governments Emerging Out of Peaceful Chaos. The first chapter from The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States by David Vogel. From The American Conservative, Ron Unz on race, IQ, and wealth: What the facts tell us about a taboo subject. Classic Gopnik: Why he aspires to be the “rococo, Jewish, city-bound, Canadian E.B. White”. From Big Questions Online, what is it to be intellectually humble? There are three executive-branch departments whose constitutionality is dubious at best. A review of Mercenaries, Pirates, Bandits, and Empires: Private Violence in Historical Context.