From Friday’s and Saturday’s Files
A Merton Chronology – http://merton.org/chrono.aspx
Karl Jaspers @ SEP – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/jaspers/
African Roots of War: Du Bois – http://www.webdubois.org/dbAfricanRWar.html
Du Bois @ IEP
In Praise of Marx – http://www.chronicle.com/article/In-Praise-of-Marx/127027
1892 Populist Party Platform – http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/eamerica/media/ch22/resources/documents/populist.htm
Debs Work, More or Less Comprehensive – https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/index.htm#1892
Immigration & Wages
Deprogramming Nazis
This woman was once a violent skinhead. Now she rehabs former neo-Nazis.
A Neoconservative View of Erdogan – http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2017/02/erdogan-to-me-stay-out-of-turkey
The NSF on Evictions – https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=191125&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click
Liberal Deconstruction of Du Bois
Fascism & Drugs & Such
SOP SEC Corruption – http://wallstreetonparade.com/2017/02/sec-nominee-has-represented-8-of-the-10-largest-wall-street-banks-in-past-three-years/
Arts & Humanities’ Existential Crises – http://www.govexec.com/management/2017/02/arts-and-humanities-agencies-brace-familiar-threat-extinction/135621/
Development & Disarmament Roundtable – http://www.icontact-archive.com/xNL0qQCSSQU61TQn1ZB3dIk_3VqA1CSB?w=4
SIPRI on Rising Arms Trade to Saudis++
Warmongering Via ‘Fake News’
NOTHING NEW: ‘Fake’ & Weaponized News Has Long Haunted Our War-Weary World
An ATF Cigarette-Slush-Fund Investigative Report – https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/us/alcohol-tobacco-firearms-cigarettes-millions-secret-bank-account.html
NYT Fake News Fakeout
Writing Residencies: Let’s GO!!
Conversing Like ‘Adults’ About Encryption – https://psmag.com/what-it-means-to-have-an-adult-conversation-on-encryption-4be9daf7411b#.619f6dg9i
Just Security’s Call For Papers
Call for Papers: “Revisiting the Role of International Law in National Security”
Texas Monthly Brouhaha
Texas Monthly editor walks back comments about longform journalism
Business Class BDS – https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/latin-american-research-center-drops-g4s
Debt Dilemmas, Polarization Paradoxes – http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/02/michael-hudson-why-failing-to-solve-personal-debt-and-polarization-will-usher-in-a-new-dark-age.html
Grammar & ‘Race’ & Meaning – http://www.blacklistednews.com/College_Writing_Center_Director_Says_Proper_Grammar_is_%27Racist%27/56947/0/38/38/Y/M.html
Walmart & the Business of Disruption – http://www.blacklistednews.com/Wal-Mart_in_Trouble_After_Warren_Buffet_Pulls_out_%24900_Million_Investment/56958/0/38/38/Y/M.html
Sizing Things Up, Macro Terms – https://aeon.co/ideas/our-universe-is-too-vast-for-even-the-most-imaginative-sci-fi
‘Golden Ages,’ Gone For Good – https://aeon.co/essays/how-economic-boom-times-in-the-west-came-to-an-end
Playboy, Nudity, ‘Relevance’ – https://theconversation.com/playboy-magazines-return-to-nudity-is-a-naked-bid-to-cover-up-its-irrelevance-73179
Atlanta Corruption’s Explosive Moment – https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/us/unease-spreads-in-atlanta-as-a-city-contracting-scandal-brews.html
Child’s OD Death & Ohio – http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/02/22/clev-f22.html
Delineating NIMBY – https://www.citylab.com/housing/2017/02/california-land-use-housing-affordability/517320/