Laurence Tai (NYU): Fast Fixes for FOIA. Emanuela Ceva (Pavia): Political Justification Through Democratic Participation: The Case for Conscientious Objection. Julia Moszkowicz (Southampton): Time, Narrative and the Gutter: How Philosophical Thinking Can Make Something Out of Nothing. David A. Hyman (Illinois) and Shirley Svorny (Cal State-Northridge): If Professions are Just “Cartels by Another Name”, What Should We Do About It? From Territory and Justice Network, a symposia on Kantian Theories of Territorial Rights. From ProPublica, Justin Elliott, Jesse Eisinger, and Laura Sullivan on the Red Cross’ secret disaster: After Superstorm Sandy, Americans opened their wallets to the Red Cross, trusting the charity and believing it was up to the job — they were wrong. Gnarly birthday, High Times: Forty years in, can an outlaw magazine survive the mainstreaming of pot? The editors at small-circulation magazines are always happy when big papers pick up their stories, so economics weekly Statist magazine would be chuffed to be referred in the Financial Times. David Corn on Rand Paul, the most interesting conspiracy theorist in Washington. Dennis Mersereau on conspiracy theories, ranked. Academic fraudsters put publishers’ worth in the spotlight. Greg Miller on the speedy cartographers who map the news for the New York Times. Stop celebrating the Pope's views on evolution and the Big Bang — they make no sense. Matthew Yglesias on Hillary Clinton's plan to use feminism to sell big government. Shoshana B. Roberts, the woman who made a video about catcalling, is already getting rape threats. Fox News doctor calls for “American Jihad” — it’s not terrorism if God is telling you to do it.
