Cass Sunstein (Harvard): Unleashed. Karolina Hansen, Michal Wypych, Mirosław Banko, and Michal Bilewicz (Warsaw): Psychological Determinants of Linguistic Purism: National Identification, Conservatism, and Attitudes to Loanwords. Meet Sebastian Kurz, the 31-year-old conservative poised to become Austria’s new chancellor. Why Austria’s election should worry liberals. Here’s what you should know about the bombing in Somalia. Catalonia wants independence from Spain, but modern history is littered with cautionary tales about the dangers of partition (and more). Is Donald Trump installing a mole in the Mueller probe? An ex St. Petersburg “troll” speaks out: Russian independent TV network interviews former troll at the Internet Research Agency.
Harvey Weinstein’s fall opens the floodgates in Hollywood. #MeToo: Survivors testify to the impossibility of preempting sexual assault. The movement of #MeToo: Sophie Gilbert on how a hashtag got its power. It’s time to weaponize the “whisper network”: Women have always whispered warnings to avoid certain men — but sexual harassment needs a better solution. The sexual revolution did not create Harvey Weinstein — patriarchy and capitalism did. On Weinstein coverage, Fox News summits the Everest of hypocrisy.
