Katia N. Alcantar (Vermont): You Can’t Sit With Us: Furniture’s Future in Fighting Phonies. From the Chronicle of Higher Education, Russell Jacoby on the latest intellectuals: In an era of one-stop thinking and instant commenting, we've lost the slow work of reflection. Lt. General Michael Flynn says Bush freed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi because he was “harmless” and admits Islamic State would not exist if Bush didn’t invade Iraq. Danielle Paquette on how a 42-year-old law keeps the U.S. from helping ISIS’s rape victims get abortions. Ed Kilgore on extremist Republican rhetoric and the Planned Parenthood attack. Poor boys are falling behind poor girls, and it’s deeply troubling. Say you’re leading a country — does having a Western education matter? Adrian Chen: “I just found out that the State Dept. runs its own BuzzFeed clone: https://share.america.gov".
