- The University of California's united front for saving the public univ—oh, wait
- Chancellors gone wild
- The Chicago school
- Universities, inequality, and the overtime rule
- "Here’s something I never thought I’d write: one of my best students was pulled out of class and arrested today."
- Students occupy UW-Madison library, demand end to graffiti case
- Student occupations continue across the country
- "[F]or some women to have it all, most women cannot ever have enough."
- The missing forty-three
- Peripheries against the coup
- This Wall Street Journal op-ed on final club culture at Harvard claims, “For 225 years, no one realized that...organizations [founded on the premise privilege and exclusivity] were really facades for 'gender discrimination, gender assumptions, privilege and exclusivity.'” (Literally everyone realized.)
- The New York Times notes that David Cameron's case against returning stolen Indian artifacts is that the British have stolen lots of artifacts!
- A fawning NYT profile of Queen Elizabeth I, published the same day, was doubly infuriating.
- Yet it is the Kardashians and Buzzfeed, the paper claims, who are responsible for the demise of great journalism. “[N]ews organizations almost universally say that we’d all better find our own watermelons — and find them yesterday,” it shrewdly observes.
- Technically Sunday Watching, but C. Robert Cargill seems blissfully unaware that Orientalist story lines can be remedied by making traditionally white characters Asian, not the other way around. (Bonus points for scoffing dismissal of “social justice warriors.”)
- Happy to see more outlets coming to the defense of Monica Lewinsky, but a playful casting exercise seems like an inappropriate forum to address issues like slut shaming and sexual harassment.
- The cultural icon we lost this week was “as gifted at mentoring female virtuosity as making music.” This 2011 New York Magazine profile of Misty Copeland is worth revisiting.
AlJavieera:
- Cartography of Naps
- The Urbanization of Drone Warfare: Policing Surplus Populations in the Dronepolis
- The Waterscape of Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1879-2000 (dissertation review)
- Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition
- Against Infographics
- Death by rescue
- Over the Edge
- Fred Turner: The link from anti-fascist art and the “historical problem” of Facebook
- Brett Story: The Prison in 12 Landscapes (interview)
- UC Per Student Spending Reaches Historical Low; Admin at All Time High
- "There are worse things than a thrice-daily reminder to be glad for freedom, and to meditate on where people still haven't been freed."
- Seeking Freedom from the Organized Jewish Community
- No Labels' "glib belief that 'politics' is an unserious distraction from the important work of think tank–led technocratic tinkering."
- "How and why Americans became willing to frame almost anything as a right–except the things that are essential for human survival"
- How the State Learned to Give Like a Foundation
- Trends in Canadian history