Paolo Buonanno (Bergamo), Ruben Durante (Sciences Po), and Giovanni Prarolo and Paolo Vanin (Bologna): On the Historical and Geographic Origins of the Sicilian Mafia. Yxta Maya Murray (Loyola): The Pedagogy of Violence. From the International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, Paul Longley (ANU): Literary and Cartographic Projections; Steven Aicinena (UTPB): Bubba Goes to a Tennis Tournament; and Mordechai Gordon (Quinnipiac): What Makes Humor Aesthetic? Our own worst enemies: For screen villains, the black-and-white, “us versus them” era is over — welcome to the uneasy age of us versus ourselves. The Lost Party: The strangest primary season in memory reveals a GOP that’s tearing itself apart. “Liberals are disgusting”: Julian Savulescu writes in defence of the publication of “After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?” From Smithsonian, where did dragons come from? Dungeons and Dragging It Along: A fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons attempts to unite disparate factions of fans. A look at how Homeland Security kept tabs on Occupy Wall Street. Irina Uriupina is an antinatalist, apparently.
