Spring 2011

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We hope you enjoy the issue!

- I. Garrick Mason, editor
May 9, 2011

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Feature essays in this issue:

• Convention of cranks, by Rob MacDougall – FULL VERSION ONLINE
  Why the nineteenth century’s golden age of pseudoscience may be a precursor of our own
• On mere suspicion, by Christopher Michaelsen
  After the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa, the United Nations instituted a sanctions list to freeze the assets of suspected supporters of terrorism. It has been violating due process rights ever since
• The singularity, by Luke Grundy
  Blues-punk band The White Stripes broke up in February 2011­, but their unique and stylistically hybrid sound will live on through other bands. A hard act to follow, as they say—and a necessary one
• The way of the abstract, by Giovanni Vignale
  We tend to like our science laden with comforting amounts of experimental data, the word “proven” stamped on the side. But there are physical truths that experiment cannot reach, and only theory can grapple
• Our invented universe, by John H. Arnold
  The predictably curmudgeonly and the surprisingly modern co-exist in John Lukacs’ new book, The Future of History