Alison D. Morantz (Stanford): Coal Mine Safety: Do Unions Make a Difference? Elaine Craig (Dalhousie): Converging Feminist and Queer Legal Theories: Family Feuds and Family Ties. From the Mises Institute, Jeff Riggenbach on the brilliance of Randolph Bourne. Destroying Detroit (in Order to Save It): Meet the men who are demolishing the abandoned, godforsaken homes of Detroit — all 70,000 of them — and paving the way for one last shot at the future. A light for the future: Costica Bradatan on the political uses of a dying body. A study of people from 33 nations led researchers to conclude that a given people's history of threats leads to cultural norms. Kathryn Schulz on an ode to a four-letter word — and she doesn't mean "okay". Bit Lit: With digitized text from five million books, one is never at a loss for words. A review of Robin Blackburn's An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln. Chivalry and the birth of celebrity: Medieval knights were the sporting superstars and military heroes of their day, who performed before an adoring public in the tournament. Did Goldman con the government? Who knows. Did it con its customers? You bet. Home Sweet Tiny Home: As the small-house movement picks up speed, get ready to make your move. A review of Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire by Paul D. Halliday. A review of The World as It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress by Chris Hedges (and more). Shomrim — controversial Jewish neighborhood watch groups — patrol the Orthodox enclaves of Brooklyn, where safety’s battles are fought along exclusive ethnic and community lines. A review of Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain by Ronald Hutton and Stealing Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Modern Western Magic by Nevill Drury.
