Albert Atkin (Macquarie): Race, Racism, and Social Policy. West Virginia teachers are on strike again — here’s why. Winthrop’s “city” was exceptional, not exceptionalist: Jim Sleeper reviews As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon by Daniel T. Rodgers. “Ousted” from academe, Steven Salaita says he’s driving a school bus to make ends meet. A man who is too weak occupies an office that is too strong. Is the insect apocalypse really upon us? Paul Krugman on paying for a progressive agenda. This filmmaker spent months interviewing neo-Nazis and jihadists — here’s what she learned. Who is Richard Burr, really? Why the public can’t trust his voice in the Russia probe.
Shannon Mercer and Jack Landman Goldsmith (Harvard): International Law and Institutions in the Trump Era (and more). Jacob Levy on two hundred years of the liberty of the moderns. The conflict between India and Pakistan is about to get uglier. Martin Longman on a strange kind of deep state coup. Is blockchain technology overhyped? The gender politics of fasting: Both Cesar Chavez and Simone Weil starved their bodies for spiritual and political reasons — why is only one of them remembered as anorexic? Google reaped millions in tax breaks as it secretly expanded its real estate footprint across the U.S. All this should remind you of the run-up to the Iraq War: The march to war against Iran is echoing the drumbeats of America’s last major Middle Eastern invasion.
