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Constitutive of what we mean

Timothy Martell (Murray State): Hobbes on the Simulation of Collective Agency. From FrumForum, Nils August Andresen on why America’s top students tune out the GOP (and more). The rise of anti-Muslim hate: What accounts for the increase of Islamophobia in the US and Europe? The put-ons of personal essayists: Authors' voices are often ventriloquized. Hans Rosling reframes 10 years of UN data with his spectacular visuals, lighting up an astonishing — mostly unreported — piece of front-page-worthy good news: We're winning the war against child mortality. Is there a secular body? Or, in somewhat different terms, is there a particular configuration of the human sensorium — of sensibilities, affects, embodied dispositions — specific to secular subjects, and thus constitutive of what we mean by “secular society”? Why liberals love the acerbic comedian Louis CK. If you read Outside, stay home: When we celebrate a hiker who sawed off his hand, we pay tribute to an idiot and ignore countless smarter climbers. This is the News: Here's a Beginner’s Guide to Democratic Mind Control. How pain can make you feel better: Scientists find a strange connection between physical pain and positive emotions. Peter Berkowitz reviews Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus (and more on Buckley). Black Swans: What if Gaussian engineering is clear, simple, and wrong? Rick Perlstein on the continuous readjustment of expectations downward: For historians like Jefferson Cowie and Judith Stein, that was the key experience of the 1970s. Frozenology: Tony Wood on how Siberia is melting. From Transcript, a special issue on Prose Fiction from Turkey. Equipping the soldier of the future: New weapons, gear, clothes coming your way.