Michel Croce (Edinburgh): On What It Takes to Be An Expert. “Brazilian black women have been the safeguard of democracy”: Feminist Gabriela Monteiro on fighting the rise of Bolsonaro. In the wake of the most recent effort to undermine transgender people and their rights, Scott McLemee reviews this year’s books on them. At trial, Harvard’s Asian problem and a preference for white students from “sparse country”. Illiberal democracies: Awash in media without plurality. America’s next civil war: The United States shows all the warning signs of impending social and political collapse. Rebirth of a Nation: Can states’ rights save us from a second civil war? Resistance is never futile: Stephanie Sy-Quia reviews Call Them By Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit.
