Thomas Hall (USC): In Defense of the Compossibility of Presentism and Time Travel. The world’s deadliest terrorist group has killed 40 people in the last 48 hours — it’s not ISIS. What do the Paris attacks tell us about foreign fighters? Police believe attackers used forged passports to stigmatize refugees. A look at the political history behind Bernie Sanders’s call for democratic socialism (and more and more). Michelle Goldberg on how your Hillary smear sausage gets made. Jeet Heer on why the politics of race and gender are dominating the 2016 election — and why that’s not a bad thing. Princeton protesters occupy president’s office, demand “racist” Woodrow Wilson’s name be removed. From Details, the making of the most expensive mansion in history: On a hilltop in Bel Air, a 100,000-square-foot gigamansion is under construction, for no one in particular; the asking price — $500 million — would shatter records, but, as ridiculous as it sounds, in L.A.’s unbridled real-estate bubble, this house could be billed as a bargain.
