Dan Glenday (Brock): Professional Wrestling as Culturally Embedded Spectacles in Five Core Countries: The USA, Canada, Great Britain, Mexico and Japan. David Hollanders (Tilburg) and Ferry Koster (EUR): Aging and the Politics of the Welfare State. Israel Issi Doron (Haifa): Ageism: Justice and Social Policy. Robin Feldman (Hastings) and W. Nicholson Price (Harvard): Patent Trolling: Why Bio and Pharmaceuticals are at Risk. Ben Burroughs (Iowa): Obama Trolling: Memes, Salutes, and an Agonistic Politics in the 2012 Presidential Election. Robots aren't here yet, but that doesn't mean they never will be. Caity Weaver on how America's clowns are dying. Amusing ourselves to death still? Jeffrey Goldfarb on media monstration, the politics of small things, and "The Daily Show". The new domestics: Forget the butler and the ladies’ maid — those who serve today’s super-rich are more likely to have titles like videographer, curator and horticulturist. The Dark Money Man: Kim Barker and Theodoric Meyer on how Sean Noble moved the Kochs’ cash into politics and made millions. Ruth Graham on how a new wave of fetal-protection measures creates a collision in American law — and exposes a moral conundrum. PopFront introduces Marxist Mixtape with Allen Ginsberg’s “The Ballad of the Skeletons”, featuring Paul McCartney, Lenny Kaye and Philip Glass. From the Center for New Revenue, Pat Oglesby on how not to tax marijuana. Danny Postel and Nader Hashemi on using force to save starving Syrians. A refugee from the Democratic Republic of North Korea who spent six years in one of that nation's harshest gulags has shared his chilling illustrations of its conditions with the UN High Commission on Human Rights.
