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There is no point

From M/C Journal, a special issue on catastrophe. Jan Chovanec (Masaryk): How Come You're Not a Criminal? Immigrant Stereotyping and Ethnic Profiling in the Press. From First Things, Alan Jacobs on Lena Dunham’s Inviolable Self: Contrasting the moral worlds of Jane Austen and Girls. Corey Robin on the Wrongly Attributed Statement (WAS): Our democratic poetry. Enough already: There is no point at which those who accumulate money become satisfied. Mark Malseed on the story of Sergey: How the Moscow-born entrepreneur cofounded Google and changed the way the world searches. Jim Holt reviews The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick by Benoit B. Mandelbrot. McAuliffe vs. Cuccinelli: Jonathan Chait on seven more unpleasant rooting choices. Molly Ball on why both the Dems and the GOP now think voters prefer female candidates.