Nathan Rosenberg (Arkansas) and Nevin Cohen (CUNY): Let Them Eat Kale: The Misplaced Narrative of Food Access. Rizqy Zein (Airlangga): Is Ethnicity the Root of all Evil? Engaging Macro and Micro Analysis of Ethnic Violence. Republican extremism is turning Democrats left on health care. Once defined by his loathing for Trump, Lindsey Graham is now all-in for the president — why? Ken Starr: Presidential impeachment is “the wrong way to go”. Ukraine is ground zero for the crisis between Russia and the West: The confrontation reflects a larger — and for now probably unbridgeable — divide. The introduction to Gaming the System: Deconstructing Video Games, Game Studies and Virtual Worlds by David Gunkel.
Per Engzell (Oxford): What Do Books in the Home Proxy For? A Cautionary Tale. Frank Lehman (Tufts): A Complete Catalog of Motivic Materials in Star Wars. Emily Atkin on the devastating slowness of Hurricane Florence. Florence is not the “new normal” — we’ve destroyed normal forever. How we might repeat the unrepeatable: Andy Fitch interviews Alexander Nehamas. The unconstrained presidency: James Goldgeier and Elizabeth N. Saunders on how checks and balances eroded long before Trump. William Davies on how feelings took over the world. Are we all “harmless torturers” now? In the age of online shaming, we should push ourselves to consider the collective consequences of our actions.
