Nov 28, 2016 13:15
- The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about the importance of truth in journalism.
- Crooked Timber looks at the example of Trump and wonders why that kind of charismatic authoritarianism is popular.
- The Dragon's Gaze links to a model of the inner debris disk of HR 8799.
- Far Outliers looks at the cultural divergences between North and South Koreans.
- Language Hat looks at the complexities of translating the obscenities of the Marquis de Sade.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the collapse of unions and makes a limited defense of Castro.
- Marginal Revolution links to a plan in the United States to make social science research more productive.
- The NYRB Daily shares Masha Gessen's article talking about the hard choices she had to make in Putin's Russia and their relevance to the United States.
- Window on Eurasia argues that Russia's Ukrainian policy may be self-destructive.
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