Federico Luisetti (UNC): Decolonizing Gaia: Or, Why the Savages Shall Fear Bruno Latour’s Political Animism. Orban, prime minister of Hungary, threatens to shut down Central European University. Black women at work hashtag goes viral after Maxine Waters was attacked by Bill O’Reilly. Morgan Jenkins on how America fails black girls. Russia’s infamous “troll factory” is now posing as a media empire. Allegra Kirkland on everything we learned about the Senate Intel Committee’s Russia probe. Mark V. Tushnet on his (and Alan Chen’s and Joseph Blocher’s) book Free Speech Beyond Words: The Surprising Reach of the First Amendment. If everything can be “weaponized”, what should we fear? We risk obscuring real sources of violence when a tweet can be considered a tool of war.
Trump’s son-in-law has been tasked with making the government more efficient — good luck. Jared Kushner says government should be run like a company — here's why that's wrong: "Someone has to tell Jared Kushner that citizens are his boss, not his customers". This is why Trump’s “Art of the Deal” doesn’t work in politics.
