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A bombastic version

Tim Di Muzio (Wollongong) and Jesse Salah Ovadia (Newcastle): Energy, Capitalism and World Order. Rory Sullivan (Leeds): Fiduciary Duty in the 21st Century. The gayest straight show on TV: Daniel Wenger on the HBO series “Silicon Valley”, which follows straight men surrounded only by other straight men in the tech industry. How feminism became “trendy”: Alanna Vagianos interviews Andi Zeisler, author of We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement (and more). This is why Trump and Bernie got big: Daniel Denvir interviews Judith Stein, author of Fabulous or Fortunate? The Clinton Years and the Origins of Our Time. The making of an ignoramus: Trump’s bad ideas are largely a bombastic version of what many in his party have been saying. Elizabeth Drew on 2016: When the rules change the game.