Landon Schnabel (Indiana): Secularism and Fertility Worldwide. Thomas Hurka (Toronto): More Seriously Wrong. Myles E. Johnson on Beyonce and the end of respectability politics. Thanks to Beyonce, all eyes are on black colleges — a historian says they should capitalize on the hype. Sean Hannity was very concerned about conflicts of interest — until he had one. Neil Gorsuch voted with the liberal justices, but his opinion should chill you to the bone. Politicized by Trump, teachers threaten to shake up red-state politics. Richard Clarida and Michelle Bowman, Trump’s new Fed appointees, explained. Richard Cohen’s privilege, explained: The Washington Post columnist and alleged sexual harasser is bitter about having lost a job to a woman more than 40 years ago.
From Vox, John Bolton wanted a massive bombing raid in Syria — Trump said no; Trump wants Arab nations to send troops into Syria — that’s a spectacularly bad idea; and Syria exposes the core feature of Trump’s foreign policy: contradiction. Why no world power really wants to topple Syria’s Assad. A Syria for all its people: Maryam Saleh reviews No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid and The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria by Alia Malek.
