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Emerging Social Democracies Do Not Intervene on Behalf of Blood-Soaked...

The Two Constituencies of Liberalism.

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The Fetish for Procedure

Why we can’t have nice things: Some 60 percent of Wisconsin voters said a recall was only appropriate when a public official was accused of some kind of official misconduct.

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All the Tuesday Night Links, and It’s Really Tuesday This Time, or Maybe...

* I put up a MetaFilter post on the Daniel Tosh rape threat incident that got so much attention today, which is a relatively decent read as Internet comment threads go despite expectedly high rates of...

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Some Monday Links

* Tumblr has been perfected; you can all go home. Troy and Abed in Engineering. * Hi, I’m Maria Bamford; ask me anything. * Newt Gingrich thinks Republicans couldn’t beat Hillary Clinton in 2016. I...

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Late Night Thursday!

* Freddie deBoer has a new post with a list of liberals who want to be forced to endorse torture if anyone is still interested in fighting about that. * The @dronestream account tweeting U.S. drone...

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Born That Way

Current research on pedophilia suggests the tendency may be both in-born and importantly distinct from molestation. More evidence of brain involvement comes from scattered examples of men with brain...

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Lots of Wednesday Links

* It’s damn cold in Chicago: water is freezing to the sides of burning buildings. * The reality of being an adjunct. MOOCs for Credit. Why We Should Talk About the Football Coach’s Salary When Faculty...

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Lots of Thursday Links! The University in Ruins, How to Predict the Future,...

* Five Katrinas A Decade? Warming Projected To Boost Extreme Storm Surges Ten-Fold. * Cause of windfarm sickness identified: it’s spread by human mouth. * “If our universe was a simulation you could...

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Against Meritocracy

I’m far from a fan of Matt Yglesias, but this piece seems useful to me for its succinct recognition of the central paradox of liberalism: Needless to say, children under the age of 6 do not exercise a...

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Tuesday Is Monday Now Links

* Robert J. Sawyer, against Star Wars.  * ‘Save the gun’ law bars North Carolina cops from destroying guns. Finally, someone is solving the real problems. * Football’s death spiral: Trainers who butt...

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Weekend! Links!

*  Program for the 2014 MLA Subconference, January 8-9 at Columbia College Chicago. * CFP for “Joss Whedon: A Celebration” at DePaul University this May. * The New Yorker considers Kim Stanley...

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Tuesday Links!

* This is not a glitch in the system. It is the system. Readers are gullible, the media is feckless, garbage is circulated around, and everyone goes to bed happy and fed. The Year We Broke the...

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Friday Night Spring Break Spring Break Spring Break Links

* When we’re old, LSD will be standard medication for the dying. * We know enough to state unequivocally that the “targeted killing” program is both wrong and wrongheaded. Morality and a demand for...

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All the Thursday Links

* 2048: Academia Edition. * Shocking police overreach haunts Southern city: Racial profiling, quotas and secret “conviction bonuses.” Yes, of course it’s Durham. * Nazis! Me no like those guys....

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All Your Weekend Links at No Cost to You

* The great Gabriel García Márquez has died. The Paris Review interview. Autumn of the Patriarch, Forgetting to Live. In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast,...

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Guiltpiercer

I wanted to Storify my back-and-forth with my friend Aaron Bady (and a few other people, but mostly him) on the question of guilt and complicity in liberal politics, which was prompted by his Texas...

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Saturday Morning Links!

* In case you missed it: I had a mini-reading of Snowpiercer yesterday, focusing on liberal guilt. * Chicago’s Harold Washington College refused to hire a 66-year-old woman full-time because of her...

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Weekend Links! Some Especially Really Good Ones This Time I Promise

* ICYMI, some single-serving posts from the last few days: How to Grad School and KSR’s The Lucky Strike. You may have also noticed that I’ve put a link to The Cambridge Companion to American Science...

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First Tuesday after the First Monday in November Links!

* ICYMI: An edited and expanded meritocracy, lottery, game blog post got republished at Inside Higher Ed yesterday. Here’s a reply suggesting a better metaphor than games might be the casting process....

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No, YOU’RE Procrastinating: Wednesday Afternoon Links!

* We just landed a spacecraft on a comet for the first time. Here’s why it matters. * Capitalism and the space program. This is no accident. The same contradictions that have divided human aspiration...

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