Steven James Bartlett (Willamette): Mismeasuring Our Lives: The Case against Usefulness, Popularity, and the Desire to Influence Others. From Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, a second look at eight continental European classics. Asli Aydintasbas on how Turkey is succumbing to collective insanity. Can the ACLU remake itself as a mass movement for progressive change? All the disquiet on the Midwestern front: Hope Front interviews Sarah Kendzior, author of The View From Flyover Country: Dispatches From the Forgotten America. Why are “incels” so angry? Melissa J. Gismondi on the history of the little-known ideology behind the Toronto attack. Everyone is on edge as the caravan finally arrives at the US border.
The puzzle of Sarah Huckabee Sanders: How a bright, competent and likable young operative became the face of the most duplicitous press operation in White House history. “First question at the WH briefing should be: ‘Sarah, considering how you may have felt during the comedy routine at the WHCA dinner last night, can you understand how offensive the President’s words about Muslims, Mexicans, women, paralympians, Chuck Todd are? Will he stop?’”. Michelle Wolf was fucking fabulous and transcendent at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, so shut up.
