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Chipping away

David Chalmers (ANU): The Meta-Problem of Consciousness. Martha Albertson Fineman (Emory): Care and Gender. From the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program of the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, here is the 2017 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report. “An endless war”: Why 4 U.S. soldiers died in a remote African desert. Why is Ethiopia in upheaval? This brief history explains a lot. Nayma Qayum explains the crisis in the Maldives. Do you believe her now? With new evidence that Clarence Thomas lied to get onto the Supreme Court, it’s time to talk seriously about impeachment. Foucault has a new book out, and it’s the key to understanding his entire work on sexuality.

Bari Weiss and the left-wing infatuation with taking offense: Outrage mobs are chipping away at democracy, one meaningless debate at a time. “Well-compensated professional contrarians who immediately start babbling about fascism when people on Twitter start criticizing their ‘provocative’ hot takes are the most irritating people in the world”. “Oh dear. @nytimes, with friends like this”. Chris Lehmann on the tyranny of the takes: On the op-ed pages, the mediocrity is the message.