Brian Wansink and Kevin M. Kniffin (Cornell): Exhibitionist Eating: Who Wins Eating Contests? Russia, Iran and Turkey agree priority in Syria is not regime change. Assassination of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov was not terrorism, but retribution for Vladimir Putin's war crimes. A gunman shot three people at an Islamic center in Zurich, and people aren't talking about it. Board decides to keep Christine Lagarde as IMF chief after conviction. Ezra Klein interviews Ta-Nehisi Coates: "I'm a big believer in chaos": Ezra Klein interviews Ta-Nehisi Coates on Obama, Trump, atheism, and becoming the guy "white people read to show they know something". Sarah Kliff on why Obamacare enrollees voted for Trump. Have public intellectuals ever gotten anything right? They didn’t see 9/11 coming, they also missed the 2008 crash, the Arab Spring, Brexit and the victory of Donald Trump.
