From Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, Rosa Slegers (Babson): Unsettling Banality: The Unheimlichkeit of Evil; Ralph Poole (Salzburg): Sex Shape-Shifting: Male Body Spectacles of Vampires and Other Monstrous Border Crossers; and Katja Kontturi (Jyvaskyla): Ancestor Haunts: Ghosts in Don Rosa’s Donald Duck Comics. Nowtopia — class, capital, and new communities: An interview with Chris Carlsson. From The New Yorker, an article on Tyler Clementi’s suicide and Dharun Ravi’s trial. Is the Maldives a moderate Islamic state or a Taliban state? From Philosophy Pathways, Tejasha Kalita on Kant and the problem of abortion. From Small Axe, “the narrative is not written in stone”: An interview with Caryl Phillips, author of Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11 (and more). From The New York Times Magazine, a cover story on how companies learn your secrets. An interview with Michael Shermer on why people believe weird things. A look at how a Christ-centered girl scouts alternative group is gaining popularity.
