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* All is proceeding as I have foreseen: Virginia Declares State of Emergency After Armed Militias Threaten to Storm the Capitol.

* How Science Fiction Imagined the 2020s.

* Watchmen’s future unsure at HBO as Lindleof bows out.

* And just for fun, one last time.

* A brand-new Zodiac where the signs are the Muppets.

* The latest anti-grad-student-labor nonsense at the University of Chicago.

 

* The West focuses only on slavery, but the history of Africa is so much more than a footnote to European imperialism.

* Trump’s America may be declining in global soft power—but US empire rolls on. Our Frightening Moment Was Years in the Making.

* Run, Monica, run.

* …the most passionate opposition to Corbynism came from men and women in their forties, fifties, and sixties. They represented the last generation in which any significant number of young radicals even had the option of selling out, in the sense of becoming secure property-owning bastions of the status quo. Not only had that door closed behind them; they were the ones largely responsible for having closed it. They were, for instance, products of what was once the finest free higher education system in the world—having attended schools like Oxford and Cambridge plush with generous state-provided stipends—who had decided their own children and grandchildren would be better off attending university while moonlighting as baristas or sex workers, then starting their professional lives weighted by tens of thousands of pounds in student debt. If the Corbynistas were right, and none of this had really been necessary, were these politicians not guilty of historic crimes? It’s hard to understand the bizarre obsession with the idea that left Labour youth groups like Momentum—about the most mild-mannered batch of revolutionaries one could imagine—would somehow end up marching them all off to the gulag, without the possibility that in the back of their minds, many secretly suspected that show trials might not be entirely inappropriate.

* Shocker: Health care spending decreases under single-payer systems.

* How Many Kids of ‘Millionaires And Billionaires’ Would Actually Benefit from Free College?

* Sex abuse crisis in Amish Country.

* When the movie is so bad you can really let your hair down: Dolittle Is One of the Worst Movies in Years.

* Not the worst map projection I’ve ever seen.

An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Airplane Sleeping Positions.

* And the automoted utopia can never fail; it can only be failed.


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