Brendan S. Maher (UConn): The Affordable Care Act, Remedy, and Litigation Reform. Bryce Clayton Newell (Washington): The Massive Metadata Machine: Liberty, Power, and Secret Mass Surveillance in the U.S. and Europe. From The Public Domain Review, an animated film by French caricaturist, cartoonist and animator Emile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn animation, and considered by many film historians to be the very first animated cartoon (and more and more). An interview with Charles Miers on the Codex Seraphinianus, the strangest book in the world. Zach Dorfman on assholes as important subjects for moral inquiry. The book — its past, its future: Ivan Jablonka interviews Roger Chartier. Is the Onion’s film criticism better than its news satire? Laura Bennett investigates. Robin Marty read a bunch of anti-choice memoirs so you don't have to. Justin Fox on when it’s in your interest not to be self-interested. In 1992, Stella Liebeck spilled scalding McDonald’s coffee in her lap and later sued the company, attracting a flood of negative attention — it turns out there was more to the story. Donna J. Drucker reviews Gentlemen’s Disagreement: Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and the Sexual Politics of Smart Men by Peter Hegarty. Wall Street loves a cheater: As Ashley Madison, a site serving adulterers, booms, big financial firms start circling. S is for Satan and Scalia.
