Sunday Reading

Bint Battuta:

• The history and evolution of the sari border
• "Confucian Muslims" and the Sino-Islamic intellectual tradition
• Do manga characters look "white"?
• On the Chinese immigrant experience in Japan
• The Adventures of a Pakistani in Texas
• Palestinians of African origin in Gaza
• Photos of German troops in Palestine during WWI
• An Ottoman pirate novel from the late 17th century
• On Greek and Venetian dates, and an Ottoman-Venetian peace treaty
• Vineyards of Colonial Algeria: A History of French or Algerian Wine?
• The history of Danish India
• How not to remember Gandhi
• A village in Maharashtra with no doors
• The history of a cafeteria at the Indian Institute of Science
• Calcutta's few remaining street typists
• The East India Company and Early Modern English Words for "Interpreter"
• The Dame of Dictionaries
• What's the most useful language to learn when visiting Central Asia?

ReclaimUC:

• Who's the boss? Complicating the critique of university administration
• No class today, no ruling class tomorrow: Lessons from the 1970 US student strike
• Disobedience and miseducation: Occupy and the academy
• Big data and big-profit colleges
• "The NCAA is like a dictatorship"
• Northwestern football players move to unionize
• The rolling apocalypse of contemporary history
• The other domain: Oakland's parallel public/private worlds
• Interlopers on social media: Feminism, women of color, and oppression
• "Misogofeminists" and the white men who profit from silencing critiques
• Know yer Nazis, Ukraine edition
• The rise of the post-New Left political vocabulary
• The beauty of the blacklist: In memory of Pete Seeger
• Notes on the coming progressive Kristallnacht
• Crossing borders in Templar territory
• Entrevista inédita al subcomandante Marcos: Origen y balance de la guerra de 1994

Jacob Remes:

• "I continued singing, and I expect I always will."
• The Americanization of the Canadian border makes "illegal" asylees.
• Mapping lived emancipation
• Why professors should tweet
• Michael Pollan turns to food labor.

Kerim Friedman:

• Dude
• Japan's Great Zoo Massacre
• The Great Debate Over Whether 1+2+3+4..+ ? = -1/12
• The Bone-Chilling, Heart-Wrenching Process Of Counting The Nation's Homeless
• The Champion Barack Obama
• Why the Boycott Movement Scares Israel
• Hemorrhoids of greatness
• 6 paintings which inspired My Name is Red
• Gangsters yell ‘watch NMA’ on Facebook after stabbing people
• Sometimes ‘Nazi’ Is the Right Word
• Shooting the Arrows in Throne of Blood

Frank Pasquale:

• Sharing is caring.
• Mini-Bezos buys a paper.
• The Drake theory of youth unemployment.
• Mall decay.
• Enron was a warmup for Citigroup.
• Thank you, Waxman.
• Hedging hyperinequality.
• Christian case for Christianity.
• For 2% more interest, whole banking system may fall.
• Feudalism now, and as social science fiction.
• Spontaneous order + hyper-federalism comes to Atlanta.
• Plutocrat paper shuffle.

Karen Gregory:

• “There is you, and there is a thing bigger than you, and almost all the time critiques about race and beauty are not at all about you.”
• #BlackFemStory
• “An estimated one in five women is sexually assaulted at college”
• “...pervasive sexual harassment and bullying within the philosophy department”
• "The story of the Florida School for Boys is so painful in part because difficult and delinquent boys are so easy to forget about."
• "a 'systemic problem' in the culture of the team that is entrusted to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles."
•  “complaining turns out to be a powerful political strategy…”
• “One thing my Cindy self never saw was enrollment stats, credit hour information, and the degree of difficulty that comes with scheduling a curriculum…”
•  "when you're making minimum wage, you're simply another wing of America's low-wage workforce.”
• “Catharsis is not policy. Catharsis is not leadership. And shame is not wisdom.”
• 2013: The Best in Sex Work Writing
• “Pray to Hera”, says the narrator, "so that Charaxos may return here”
• “The author believes that if he just speaks slowly and loudly everyone will obviously love Bruno Latour”