Yale admissions, the movie.

Ideal allocation of my attention: 70% current research, 15% keeping up with the discipline, 10% class prep, 5% news & current events. Actual allocation of my attention? 50% class prep, 25% current events, 20% keeping up with the discipline, 5% current research… 😭😭😭

The Real College Admissions Bribery Scandal Is What’s Legal

Huge scandal as people learn Yale and other elite schools have admitted students whose parents hadn’t first donated a new building to the campus.

Chinese people don’t need to be saved from their English names

The memoirs of Obama’s White House staffers show us how not to do politics…

After taking them down, Facebook restores Elizabeth Warren ads calling for breakup of Facebook

Bruno Latour and Martin Guinard-Terrin to Curate Taipei Biennial in 2020

Ready for The Shoplifters vs Minority Report?, the movie sequel nobody asked for?

Hillary Clinton Is Still Confused About What Happened in Wisconsin

NYT’s Exposé on the Lies About Burning Aid Trucks in Venezuela Shows How U.S. Government and Media Spread Pro-War Propaganda

In this sense we can understand the employee as a witness of time. Even an embodiment of time itself.

Commentary: How Hampshire College Hampered Good Governance

Cashless stores are convenient, but they also marginalize low-income shoppers. (And immigrants.)

Fine, bring the dinosaurs back if you must! But please keep them from running our government!

This is the first time in years I don’t have any conference plans. I think I might keep it that way a while. At least till I get all my overdue book chapters out the door to the various editors… Instead I think I need to plan some real vacation time!

Elizabeth Warren proposes breaking up Amazon, Google, and Facebook

The new, safer nuclear reactors that might help stop climate change

Waiting for the train in Shoufeng

Waiting for the train in Shoufeng

Zhixue village at sunset

Zhixue village at sunset

Living in Taiwan means having an opinion as to which convenience store has the best tasting baked sweet potatoes.

Taiwanese companies are manipulating air pollution emissions readings to make it look like pollution is getting better when everyone knows it’s getting worse.

GOP and Democrats on Ilhan Omar Isn’t About Anti-Semitism