David Seamon (Kansas State): Architecture and Phenomenology. Susan S. Kuo (South Carolina): Collective Coercion. Turkey’s purge could cause a massive brain drain. The revolution is not in Bernie’s hands: David Dayen reviews Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt by Sarah Jaffe. Many private universities can expect to see their graduate employees move to form unions in the wake of the National Labor Relations Board decision on such an effort at Columbia University. After Columbia: Deans often feign surprise at graduate student complaints, and claim not to notice the thousands petitioning them every semester. The union libel: Emmett Rensin on the argument against collective bargaining. Within the journalistic cesspool of cable news, Joy-Ann Reid is a rare beacon of integrity. Robert Armstrong interviews Philip Tetlock on the Brexit curveball and why political pundits get it wrong.
