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BLM and the looming threat of political violence ... Can social justice movements redefine what counts as “knowledge”? ... Sympathy and objectivity in ethnographic writing ... Remembering Stanley Crouch ... Princeton’s racial justice pickle ... Le Monde takes an interest in Glenn and John ...

Matt welcomes Trump's Supreme Court nomination ... The GOP's "sure, we're full of shit" argument ... Which side plays meaner? ... Bill: Barrett is hostile to Roe, but might not overturn it ... Should Democrats try to pack the Court? ... Is Trump taking a big risk by elevating abortion as an issue? ... The awkward position of NeverTrump conservatives ...

Kat reviews the very controversial French film Cuties ... Sexuality without sex ... The hypothetical specter of a pedophile watching this movie ... "Photogenic feminism" and the stories about women the media ignores ... Phoebe: Being constantly chased by men is not feminism's main concern ...

Nikita's experience having Covid ... The state of the pandemic in Russia ... Differences between how Russians view Ukraine and Belarus ... Why Putin isn't rushing to rescue Belarus's strongman president ... Who poisoned Navalny? ... How Putin has handled the pandemic (with soothing lo-fi beats) ...

Mickey wants to know what PEDs Biden is taking ... The state of the race ... The state of the pandemic ... The president of Princeton gets hoist by his own antiracist petard ... Bob: The NYT's over-the-top anti-Trumpism helps Trump ... Trump's mafia-like TikTok play ... Bob pops the "Abraham Accords" bubble ... Epstein update: Is Barr compromised? ... Assessing Biden's hawkishness ... RIP RBG. What happens next? ...

Peter: "Mismatch theory" is not a front for racial prejudice ... The problem of data transparency and affirmative action ... Who gets access to affirmative action data? ... Repairing the “broken trust” of America’s racial history ... Would more data transparency actually stop race-based affirmative action? ... Determining the optimal amount of affirmative action ...

Back-to-school updates ... Matt: "Anything could matter, but most things don't matter" ... The state of the race ... Biden's modern-day front porch campaign ... How well is the Trump campaign being run? And does that even matter? ... Is Biden erring by paying a "prevent defense"? ... Explaining Biden's strength with seniors ...

Chris, a scholar of performance studies, defines performance art ... The two most important performance artists in America: Marina Abramović... ... ...and Donald Trump ... When Trump makes a show of "acting presidential" ... Pro wrestling, reality TV, and President Trump—which are real? ... Effective political performance by the Parkland students ... Trump's performance of victimhood ... Chris reviews the political conventions through the lens of performance ...

Bob K., who call himself a "liberal realist," defines the term ... In praise of the post-WWII American security umbrella ... Bob K.'s preferred China policy ... Have spheres of influence returned? ... How great powers treat international law ... Bob K.: Mainstream American realists are actually moralists ... Bob W.: America would be better off if it consistently respected international law ... Should democracy promotion be a US foreign policy goal? ...

Paul Krugman says Americans took 9/11 "pretty calmly" ... Bob: America's overreaction to 9/11 paved the way for Trump ... Would Biden just bring back the pre-Trump foreign policy status quo? ... Mickey on the Woodward book: Trump bullshits everyone ... Mickey's new "mafia" theory about the secret Epstein tapes ... Considering Matt Yglesias's new book (without having read it) ... The anti–Jeffrey Goldberg line that Trump failed to use ... Americans are falling in love with Joe "Cadaver" Biden! ... Why there hasn't been a second round of stimulus ...