A new issue of the International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace is out. Christoph Engel and Marco Kleine (Max Planck): Who is Afraid of Pirates? An Experiment on the Deterrence of Innovation by Imitation. From New Politics, are conservative evangelicals hampering anti-trafficking efforts? Sean McElwee investigates. A newly discovered crack in the Earth's crust could pull North America and Europe together and cause the Atlantic Ocean to vanish in about 220 million years. The journalist diplomat: The sad fact for Samantha Power is that you can be a media intellectual or a government official, not both. The introduction to No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth R. Wisse. Did hipster tech really save the Obama campaign? An inside look at In-Q-Tel: Debra Werner on how the CIA grows tech. Do presidents become more interventionist once they take office? Tyler Cowen investigates.
