Paul Joosse (Hong Kong): Max Weber’s Disciples: Theorizing the Charismatic Aristocracy. C. Heike Schotten (UMass): To Exist is to Resist: Palestine and the Question of Queer Theory. From the Congressional Research Service, a report on hemp as an agricultural commodity. The ignorant do not have a right to an audience: We could take a big step forward by distinguishing free speech from just access to the media. Top House Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley just lost his primary — to a socialist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (and more and more and more). U.S. cruises toward record-breaking debt on Trump’s watch. Slavoj Zizek on why he signed the letter in support of Avital Ronell: “Although the majority of academia opposes Trump and the alt-right, they are clearly the two sides of the same coin”.
Does incivility hurt democracy? Here’s what political science can tell us. Adam Gopnik on Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Red Hen Restaurant, and who deserves a place at the table. Blacklist every last one of them. Chasing White House officials out of restaurants is the right thing to do. Maxine Waters reads list of times Trump has called for violence. The party of Donald Trump has the gall to complain that someone else is being uncivil. In MLK’s day, conservatives didn’t think he was so “civil”. The activist Left doesn’t give a shit about your calls for civility. After a ridiculous days-long bad-faith debate on civility, can the press manage to learn self-respect? Everyone knows Trump supporters don’t care about decorum. Nancy LeTourneau on when normal is no longer an option.
