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Not such a silly idea

Josh Chafetz (Cornell): Whose Secrets? (A response to David Pozen's “The Leaky Leviathan: Why the Government Condemns and Condones Unlawful Disclosures of Information”). Margaret Jane Radin (Michigan): Boilerplate: A Threat to the Rule of Law? America's best-paid fairy-tale writer: John Gray reviews David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell. The end of the filibuster: John Rawls belly laughs and a justice failure is corrected. Twilight of the Guardian Angels: Born in the crucible of seedy 1970s New York, does Curtis Silwa’s red-bereted band of citizen crime busters have a place in post-Giuliani, post-Bloomberg NYC? Slavery, Katrina and Watergate — Paul Rosenberg on the right’s obsession with exaggerating: To unburden historical guilt, the right uses trumped-up charges against liberals, their form of blame-shifting. What happens when a professor tries to use philosophy to prevent suicide: Adam Plunkett reviews Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It by Jennifer Michael Hecht. Tim Harford on how a universal income is not such a silly idea: The concept of paying people to sit around has an upside. Intellectual biography, empirical sociology and normative political theory: Damian Omar Martinez interviews Tariq Modood. The IPO of you and me: Kevin Roose on how normal people are becoming corporations. The introduction to Conflicts in the Knowledge Society: The Contentious Politics of Intellectual Property by Sebastian Haunss.