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Giving way

Jessica Ringrose (UCL): Schizo-Feminist Educational Research Cartographies. From BusinessWeek, a special issue on “What is Code?” by Paul Ford. Catherine Rampell on Jeb Bush’s recipe for a better society: Shame. Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Angela Merkel, Christine Lagarde: Is a generation of powerful women turning age into an advantage? That 1914 Feeling: Despite good intentions on both sides, it is not certain that a deal will be reached between Greece and its creditors. Matt O’Brien on how Greece’s Groundhog Day may be giving way to Judgment Day. As he readies to run for president and grabs whatever low hanging fruit on the conservative agenda tree he can find, Scott Walker is now planning to strip tenure from professors in the University of Wisconsin higher education system. Professors do live in fear, but not of liberal students — the real threat to job security comes from above, not below. Alex Abad-Santos on why Reddit’s ban on Fat People Hate is ripping it apart. Libertarian magazine Reason is a target of federal subpoena. Niall Ferguson fights back against smear campaign by fact-checkers, facts. This is America’s injustice system at work: The Washington elite’s defense of David Petraeus will make you sick. Britt Peterson on how writers of endangered languages are embracing sci-fi. Former CBO director Douglas Elmendorf will become dean of the Harvard Kennedy School.