A new issue of Architecture Philosophy is out. Jose Luis Bermudez (Texas A&M) and Michael S. Pardo (Alabama): Risk, Uncertainty, and “Super-Risk”: Parallels Between Law and Finance. Hannah Rosefield on the diary of the most boring man in the world: Reconstructing the life of a Victorian bachelor. “Mental illness is the biggest single cause of misery in our society”: Joel Suss interviews Richard Layard, author of Thrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Therapies. Edward Brooke-Hitching on fox tossing and other forgotten blood sports. Jeremy Hance on how humans are driving the sixth mass extinction. The ministry of truth: Orwell taught us to fear technocratic jargon that doesn’t let us say what we mean — but that is language at its best. Rabah Arezki, Adnan Mazarei, and Ananthakrishnan Prasad on sovereign wealth funds in the new era of oil. Ezra Klein on how Martin Shkreli is the symptom, not the problem.
