David Luban (Georgetown): Human Rights Thinking and the Laws of War. Jessie Daniels (CUNY): The Trouble with White Feminism: Whiteness, Digital Feminism and the Intersectional Internet. Joseph Blocher and G. Mitu Gulati (Duke): A Market for Sovereign Control? Ayelet Oz (Harvard): The Legal Consciousness of Wikipedia. Andy Cush on the nine best hoaxes to have hit Wikipedia. Timothy B. Lee on the button, the fascinating social experiment driving Reddit crazy. On drone strikes and international law, fallout reaches the ivory tower. For Ozgecan Aslan and all victims of gender violence. Wondering Woman: Why Warner Bros. axed Michelle MacLaren, and what that tells us about the state of female directors in Hollywood. Living alone as feminist empowerment: Amanda Palleschi reviews Spinster by Kate Bolick (and more). Scholars studying dying languages, nuclear weapons, the effects of “dark money” on politics and the history of immigration reform are among the first recipients of the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, a new award intended to support research in the beleaguered humanities and social sciences. Secret Koch memo outlines plans for 2016: Documents detail plans to beef up the network’s state-of-the-art data system and pay hundreds of staff embedded in local communities across the country. Scott McLemee on the Decline of the West II: The Dysoning. Krautmas came two weeks early this year.
