A new issue of Quest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish History is out. Michael Tonry (Minnesota): Why Crime Rates Are Falling Throughout the Western World. Military to military: Seymour M. Hersh on US intelligence sharing in the Syrian war. Jonathan Mahler and Nicholas Confessore go inside the billion-dollar battle for Puerto Rico’s future. On the rule of the perpetual snot-nose: Kathleen Geier on how the domination of politics by family clans is something few predicted during the midcentury heyday of the middle class. From Vanity Fair, everything you know about Martin Shkreli is wrong — or is it? Humans are slamming into driverless cars and exposing a key flaw: They obey the law all the time, as in, without exception. The best way to die: Given hypothetical, anything-goes permission to choose from a creepy, unlimited vending machine of endings, what would you select?
