Sunday Reading

• Governing Through Unhappiness
• UW Struggle: Alien Abduction Edition 
• What Did Herman Wallace Dream of During 41 Years of Solitary?
• Memorial
• Summer Reading
• The Root's Summer Reading: 10 Great Books
• Surveillant Anxiety: Pleasure in the Surveillance of 'Others' & Seveillance
• Hot Girls Wanted
• Do Algorithms Have Politics?
• How Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity into a Credit Score
• Credit Scores, Life Chances and Algorithms
• Don't Fight It
• Working Life Coaching
• New York After Rent 
• Inside Airbnb
• Citizen-Ex
• Salary Database Shows the Highs and Lows of Silicon Valley Pay
• The Digital Language Divide

Bint Battuta:

• Piracy, war, and the acquisition of Arabic manuscripts in Renaissance Europe
• How Jews Translate the Bible and Why
• On the Murty Classical Library of India
• "In India, the desire to have a past outstrips the desire to know anything meaningful about it"
• Colonial Botany in British India
• An ancient Arabian zodiac discovered
• When did Egyptians stop being Ottomans? An Imperial Citizenship Case Study
• The Travels of Ilyas bin Hanna al-Mawsuli in Colonial Latin America
• A Treatise Concerning the Permutations of Letters in the Arabic Language (1810)

Reclaim UC

• The political economy of enrollment
• Gutting public education in Wisconsin
• "We refuse to serve as anyone’s excuse for anti-black racism."
• The cost of an adjunct
• LIBOR for the universities?
• How NYU squeezes billions from its students—and where that money goes
• "We’re capitalists, and we have to look at what the demand is, and we have to respond to the demand."
• What's left after higher education is dismantled
• "[U]niversities are nonprofit enterprises that nonetheless generate substantial operating surpluses"
• Body cameras aren't pointed at the police—they're pointed at you

Kerim Friedman