E. Glen Weyl (Chicago) and Anthony Lee Zhang (Stanford): Ownership of the Means of Production. Tens of thousands of documents, containing 22,000 names, addresses, telephone numbers and family contacts of Islamic State jihadis, have been obtained by Sky News. Broadcast news stations covered Trump and Tom Brady last year more than they covered climate change. The Right wing’s casting agency, and its agent: As executive director of Talent Market, Claire Kittle Dixon uses her vast connections to fill posts for prominent and obscure conservative organizations. “Marriage changes when you don’t just need a warm body and a paycheck”: Jia Tolentino interviews Rebecca Traister, author of All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation. Andrew B. Ayers on the half-virtuous integrity of Atticus Finch.
Jamelle Bouie on the real difference between Hillary and Bernie: One is running to lead the party as it is; the other is running to lead the party to the Left. Were you to draw a Venn diagram of Democrats, meritocrats, and plutocrats, the space where they intersect would be an island seven miles off the coast of Massachusetts called Martha’s Vineyard: An excerpt from Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank.
