Marilia P. Futre Pinheiro (Lisbon): Lucian’s Satire or Philosophy on Sale. From n+1, Barbarians at the Gates: Bruce Robbins on an irresponsible speculation. Dawn Chatty on the aid crisis for Syrian refugees: As the war is prolonged, families are exhausting their savings — without a massive re-thinking of how aid is delivered and distributed, refugees in the region are going to look for ways to leave. “These are the cities of tomorrow”: Governments should stop thinking about refugee camps as temporary places, says Kilian Kleinschmidt, one of the world's leading authorities on humanitarian aid. Obama: Syrian refugees are like pilgrims on the Mayflower. A new question has emerged, one that anyone with any sense of recent history ought to be shocked to hear: Why can’t Barack Obama be more like George W. Bush? Ezra Klein on why Bernie Sanders isn’t a Democrat. Jackie Calmes on Steve Deace and the power of conservative media. A meeting of psychologists becomes a moment of soul searching.
From Slate, Joshua Keating on the People’s Republic of Plymouth: The strange and persistent right-wing myth that Thanksgiving celebrates the pilgrims’ triumph over socialism; and if it happened there: How the U.S. media would cover Thanksgiving if it were in another country. Philip Bump on why you can’t convince your uncle he’s wrong about politics. “I never understood why the Lions & Cowboys get to play on Thanksgiving — shouldn’t the Patriots play the Redskins, then steal their stadium?”
