Justin Levitt (Loyola): Citizenship and the Census. Traci Brynne Voyles (LMU): Man Destroys Nature? Gender, History, and the Feminist Praxis of Situating Sustainabilities. Climate change comes home to roost in North Carolina. The Trump administration says global slavery and child labor are bad — for American businesses. There’s still a lot we don't know about the nationwide prison strike, but we do know one thing: The legitimacy of American prisons is on the decline. Jordan Peterson threatened to sue Kate Manne for calling him a misogynist. Trumpworld divided on Rosenstein — not whether to fire him, but when. Molly Brigid McGrath on the useful errors of Terry Eagleton.
Derek Edyvane (Leeds) and Enes Kulenovic (Zagreb): Disruptive Disobedience. Pablo Beytia (Berlin) and Janosch Schobin (Kassel): Networked Pantheon: A Relational Database of Globally Famous People. Anand Giridharadas reviews Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment by Francis Fukuyama and The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah (and more). Against identity politics: Francis Fukuyama on the new tribalism and the crisis of democracy (and more and more) and on identity and the end of history (and more). Why tariff and trade disputes are more than a money problem. Making tariffs corrupt again: Trump has perverted the process and undermined U.S. credibility.
