Arolda Elbasani (EUI): The Revival of Islam in the Post-Communist Balkans: Coercive Nationalisms and New Pathways to God. Macros and PCs: Robert Paul Wolff on a last-ditch attempt to salvage ideological critique. Whether to kill baby Hitler might be a political firecracker, but can counterfactuals say anything deeper about the past? After Cecil furor, U.S. aims to protect lions through Endangered Species Act. Climate change isn’t real, also can’t be stopped: People who were certain climate change is fake are now certain that Paris can’t stop it. Can we stop pretending that Republicans care about the deficit now? Claire Lehmann on how a rebellious scientist uncovered the surprising truth about stereotypes. Keeping it on the company campus: As more firms have set up their own “corporate universities”, they have become less willing to pay for their managers to go to business school.
From The Atlantic Monthly, David Frum on the Great Republican Revolt: The GOP planned a dynastic restoration in 2016; instead, it triggered an internal class war — can the party reconcile the demands of its donors with the interests of its rank and file?; and Peter Beinart on why America is moving Left: Republicans may have a lock on Congress and the nation’s statehouses — and could well win the presidency — but the liberal era ushered in by Barack Obama is only just beginning.
