A new issue of Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry is out. From the New Yorker, Hua Hsu on the rise and fall of affirmative action. Harvard officials, accused of racial bias, defend their admissions policy (and more). The new reading environment: The irony of the op-ed’s depressing reemergence is that everything is an op-ed now. Violent political rhetoric can feed political violence. Trump is “the most honest president in modern history”? Give me a break. Do liberals hate Trump because he’s a typical American? David Dayen on the essential difference between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Why are so many Guatemalans migrating to the U.S.? The migrant caravan’s plight is a glimpse of our coming climate crisis. The investigation into pipe bombs and the political fallout, explained.
