Lawrence J. Trautman (American): Virtual Currencies: Bitcoin and What Now after Liberty Reserve and Silk Road? Carina Ray (Fordham): Interracial Sex and the Making of Empire. From World History Connected, a forum on architecture and world history. From The Baffler, what's the point if we can't have fun? David Graeber hopscotches over the robotic universe of contemporary science and winds up inventing a new law of reality; and Barbara Ehrenreich calls for a science that can explain why fun is fun. Will the White House’s big data privacy initiative distract from the NSA debate? Andrea Peterson wonders. Antonia Sohns on developing with the future in mind. Ten billion dollars for global public goods — where do we sign? David Weigel on the conservative man-crush on Putin. Daniel Strauss goes inside the GOP establishment's war to crush the Tea Party revolt. The first chapter from Three Views of Logic: Mathematics, Philosophy, and Computer Science by Donald W. Loveland, Richard E. Hodel and S. G. Sterrett. Now that Boehner has backed down, let's fix the debt ceiling for good. Claims by anonymous officials that Michael Sam will bring negative PR to the NFL are functionally and morally indistinguishable from simple bigotry. Is the concept expressed by the English word “know” universal? Michael Hannon on the universal core of knowledge. Kevin Drum on Job 1 for GOP: Pretending not to be crazy. Moon landing deniers have nothing on these people: Joshua A. Krisch on 9 utterly ridiculous conspiracy theories.
