If every country needs a poet, then Kosovo’s was Ali Podrimja. The whole country mourned when, on a midsummer’s day two years ago, the lifeless body of the poet was found in a forest miles away from the small French town of Lodève. His death was attributed to dehydration. There were no signs of violence and nothing to indicate it was a suicide. Podrimja, who was in town for a festival of Mediterranean poetry, had disappeared days before, losing all contact with colleagues and family.

Coming of age after postmodernism often seems like living a parody of our forebears’ concerns; it feels like we are testing the Society of the Spectacle reductio ad ridiculum.

Can the United States government legally stop US citizens from traveling to certain "Ebola-affected" countries? Can the government restrict US citizens abroad who may have been infected with the Ebola virus from re-entering the country, as it can non-citizens? Can the government impose isolation or quarantine measures inside the United States in order to control Ebola?