Seyla Benhabib and Paul Linden-Retek (Yale): Judith Shklar’s Critique of Legalism. The great mortality: The plagues we pretend to want are coming for us anyway. Trump cites Saudi Arabia’s arms deal with U.S. to downplay apparent murder of journalist (and more and more and more). Trump goes to war with the Fed (and more). Is there such a thing as too much Trump? The Democrats’ hopes of retaking the Senate are dying. The Senate is drifting away from Democrats indefinitely: Given the cyclical nature of our politics, Democrats should be poised to take back the Senate in 2020 — they’re not. Maori language, once shunned, is having a renaissance in New Zealand. Obituary: Mary Midgley (1919-2018).
From n+1, Greg Afinogenov on “Sokal Squared”. What do hoax papers really show? What the “grievance studies” hoax actually reveals (and more). Thread: “If we’re talking about the health of various academic disciplines, the fact that the most recent economics Nobel Prize winner believes the dominant paradigm in macroeconomics is fraudulent pseudoscience seems indicative of a potential problem”. “The fact that this was published in a decent journal means medicine isn’t a real science am I right”. “Gosh, I bet this happens all the time in gender studies and literary theory”.
