Martin Glazier (UNAM): The Difference Between Epistemic and Metaphysical Necessity. The US is warning the world to stop buying Iranian oil by early November or else. Louise Matsakis on Red Hen, Trump, and the weaponization of Yelp. DeVos has scuttled more than 1,200 civil rights probes inherited from Obama. Gabriel Winant reviews Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer by Barbara Ehrenreich. Stanford University launches new blockchain research center. “Bitcoin may in fact be the single most appropriate way for the world to collapse–the combination of grotesque energy use in an era of climate change, speculative New Gilded Age capitalism, and libertarian asshole fantasies sums up so much of our world”.
