Alex Kreit (Thomas Jefferson): The Federal Response to State Marijuana Legalization: Room For Compromise? Josh Blackman (South Texas) and Shelby Baird (Yale): The Shooting Cycle. From PS: Political Science and Politics, a special issue on US Presidential Election Forecasting. Elias Groll on Amartya Sen, Jagdish Bhagwati, and the obscure academic feud at the center of India's elections. These four hedge fund guys out-earned every kindergarten teacher in America. A total failure of language, and of imagination: if thanaticism is anything, it is this. Why Neil deGrasse Tyson is a philistine: The popular television host says he has no time for deep, philosophical questions — that's a horrible message to send to young scientists. Jonathan Chait on Obamacare predictions made by the critics that have taken a factual beating. Benjamin Wallace-Wells on Chiara de Blasio and our changing notion of political celebrity. Barack Obama's administration has decided to back a push to have the International Criminal Court (ICC) open a formal, United Nations-sanctioned investigation into potential Syrian war crimes, embracing a strategy that it once dismissed as wholly inadequate. Elizabeth Warren on the Citigroup Clique: Why is Obama appointing so many former employees of one Wall St. bank? Slut-shaming Helen of Troy: Emily Wilson reviews Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation by Ruby Blondell. News from a war zone: “One of the subordinate questions that used to be debated in Theoretical Ethics is whether the notion of evil, as opposed to immorality, can be given a coherent meaning absent the assumption of the existence of God”.
