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One of a kind

From Parrhesia, Thomas Lemke (Frankfurt): Foucault's Hypothesis: From the Juridico-Discursive Concept of Power to an Analytics of Government; Andrew Ryder (Emory): Inner Experience is not Psychosis: Bataille's Ethics and Lacanian Subjectivity; a review of The Event of the Thing: Derrida’s Post-Deconstructive Realism by Michael Marder; a review of Difference and Givenness: Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence by Levi R. Bryant; and a panel on Reflections on Time and Politics by Nathan Widder. To defang Iran, and help Lebanon and Israel, we must demilitarize Hezbollah —which means we'll have to talk to them. Meet the NFL's Most Interesting Man: Five languages, two degrees and Romanian roots make New England's Zoltan Mesko one of a kind. From Social Policy, we are in an historical moment in which grassroots-led change has become a possibility again; a review of A Worker Justice Reader: Essential Writings on Religion and Labor by Interfaith Worker Justice; and do you think the flurry of canvasses, phone banks, house meetings, and demonstrations activists have been doing for the last few years is something called grassroots organizing? From National Defense magazine, here are five key questions about the Defense budget. The problem with fellatio: More young women report performing oral sex, and it's often without protection. Feeding grapes to cannibals: Richard Greenan on Tropicalia and the evolution of pop. Wiccans v. Creationists: An empirical study of how two systems of belief differ. An interview with Jennifer Ouellette, author of The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse. Does Singer's “Famine, Affluence and Morality” inescapably commit us to his conclusion?