Kevin T. Smiley (SUNY-Buffalo) and Michael Oluf Emerson (North Park): Market Cities, People Cities, and a Spirit of Urban Capitalism: The Cases of Copenhagen and Houston. From the Journal of World-Systems Research, a symposium on Global Unions, Local Power: The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing by Jamie McCallum. Samsung's chief was just sent to prison by a South Korean court — that’s a big deal. Elite politesse: Kyle Paoletta on the New Yorker style as content-generation machine. Bots on Wikipedia wage edit wars between themselves that last for years. Susan Shell reviews Images of History: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject by Richard Eldridge.
Texas flood disaster: Harvey has unloaded 9 trillion gallons of water. Hurricane Harvey threatens more than you think. Trump rescinded Obama’s flood risk rules weeks before Hurricane Harvey hit.
