From Anuac, a special issue on anthropologists in/of the neoliberal academy. Michael Kent Curtis (Wake Forest): Race as a Tool in the Struggle for Political Mastery: North Carolina's "Redemption" Revisited 1870–1905 and 2011–2013. The GOP's scandalous Merrick Garland gamble pays off. Jennifer Krasinski on the Poetry Project's half-century of dissent. Stop the hand-wringing about Aleppo: What's happening in Syria is a tragedy — but nobody has ever been willing to do what's necessary to stop it. Here's what the political fallout from the Berlin attack means for Angela Merkel. All terrorism attacks are not connected — but terrorists want you to think that they are.
Donald Trump is holding a government casting call — he's seeking "the look": He's very impressed when somebody has a background of being good on television. Donald Trump is so displeased with his team’s inability to lock in A-list talent for his inauguration events next month that he’s ordered a “Hail Mary” shakeup of his recruiters to try to book performers. Was O.J. Simpson Donald Trump's predecessor? National Enquirer morphs into propaganda rag for President-elect Trump.
