Matthew H. Kramer (Cambridge): The Concept of Law and Political Philosophy. Humanity is driving an unprecedented extinction of sealife unlike any in the fossil record. Christine Owens on how Gretchen Carlson’s $20 million settlement is a rip-off. Wesley Morris on Colin Kaepernick and the question of who gets to be called a “patriot”. Cecily McMillan was arrested during the protest in Zuccotti Park and spent 58 days in jail; five years after it began, she considers what Occupy achieved — and why it didn’t go far enough. Pepe the Frog’s creator, Matt Furie, discusses Trump memes (and more and more and more and more). The Politico 50 Reading List: The smartest minds in politics name the best books they read this year. A legendary American miracle worker claimed to read books without opening them — a trick researchers have just pulled off in the lab; Scott McLemee looks from inside a lattice of coincidences.
