Max Hartshorn, Artem Kaznatcheev and Thomas Shultz (McGill): The Evolutionary Dominance of Ethnocentric Cooperation. Unconventional wisdom: John Summers was wrong for most magazines; that made him perfect for The Baffler. Snowden and Assange targeted by mysterious hacker The Jester: The “patriot” hacktivist cyberattacked an Ecuadorean stock exchange on Monday — wait till you hear his plan to flush the WikiLeaks founder out of the country's embassy. Michael Dorf on the troubling emergence of novelty-skepticism on the Supreme Court. Ex-Chad ruler Hissene Habre charged with crimes against humanity. The fallacy of human freedom: Robert W. Merry reviews John Gray’s The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths. Conor Friedersdorf on the case against universal national service. Ted, white and blue: Steve Hendrix on how Ted Nugent has rocked politics. Michael A. Lewis on deciding abortions by the toss of a coin. From The Boston Globe’s “Ideas”, cross this line and I’m gonna do nothing: Simon Waxman on the strange truth about ultimatums; and researchers know “time affluence” makes us happier, but time isn’t bendable — or is it? Mark Kleiman is the go-to guy on issues related to drug policy. Will think tanks become the universities of the 21st century? Alejandro Chafuen wonders (and more). Especially heinous: Carmen Maria Machado on 272 views of Law & Order SVU.
