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Paolo Stellino (NOVA): Nietzsche and the Responsibility of Intellectuals. Mackenzie Graham (Western): A Fate Worse Than Death? The Well-Being of Patients Diagnosed as Vegetative With Covert Awareness. When misogynists become terrorists: How many more women are we going to allow to die like this? Paula Erizanu interviews Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism and the mixed blessings of the Windrush scandal. Gender and the politics of secularism: Judith Butler interviews Joan Wallach Scott, author of Sex and Secularism. The Economist interviews Mario Vargas Llosa, author of The Call of the Tribe, on freedom, liberalism, dictatorship and ideas. Trump’s Fox & Friends interview is already creating legal problems.

Bill Cosby lost, #MeToo won: The Cosby retrial was the first big test for the moment of reckoning. Bill Cosby’s guilty verdict was made possible by decades of activism by black women.