Timo Walter (Erfurt) and Leon Wansleben (LSE): How Central Bankers Learned to Love Financialization: The Fed, the Bank, and the Enlisting of Unfettered Markets in the Conduct of Monetary Policy. After the death of alt-weeklies, alt-alt-weeklies. Why Britain is suddenly facing a constitutional crisis. The end of the end of history: What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now? How misogyny is already shaping the presidential race. If Trump’s border wall becomes reality, here’s how he could easily get private land for it. Trump administration now says entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down.
From Studies in Social Justice, a special issue on the Politics of Literacies. John K.M. Ohnesorge (Wisconsin): Comparing Impeachment Regimes. The 2020 authenticity primary: A diverse slate of Democratic presidential candidates challenge what we see as “authentic”. The U.S. is thinking of invading Venezuela — that’s unlikely to lead to democracy. Ali Shames-Dawson reviews Why Does Patriarchy Persist? by Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider. The federal courts are running an online scam. The panic over yield curve inversion, explained: A key financial indicator says a recession is coming soon (maybe). A world built on sand and oil: Laleh Khalili on when natural resources become essential commodities. Roiled by staff uproar, civil rights group looks at intolerance within.
