* My favorite website is having big financial problems. The New Internet Gods Have No Mercy.
* The museum as classroom: Marquette professors use art for pilot project.
* Commencement speakers, reaction, and the hatred of students. In Defense of Protesting Commencement Speakers. Remember: writing a letter to a public figure is wildly inappropriate, but personally attacking students from the podium at their own graduation is just fine.
* A Commencement Address from Jonathan Edwards.
* Online Education and The Erosion of Faculty Rights.
* Whole Foods Realism: US-China Relations, futurity, and On Such a Full Sea.
* It makes a canny kind of sense, then, that a 2014 incarnation of the film that bears his name would reprise visual scenes of global environmental catastrophes and dare us to think of them in tragic terms. is a film for the anthropocene — the age when human actions have caused irreversible ecological damage. Tragedies, like feelings, happen at a human scale. But ours is a time when human actions work off the human scale, causing events in our world that require much more strenuous interventions than sympathy and tears. It’s hard to know what to feel, in the face of the catastrophe we have made, or what difference our feelings would make.
* Silicon Valley Dreams of Fascism.
* NYU Issues Apology for Mistreatment of Workers on Abu Dhabi Campus. Well, that settles that!
* Executive Compensation at Public Colleges, 2013 Fiscal Year. Former University Presidents and Their Pensions. A new report finds that student debt and low-wage faculty labor are rising faster at state universities with the highest-paid presidents.
* NLRB May Reconsider Unionization Rights For Graduate Students In College Football Case.
* What are the humanities good for? The negative magisterium of the humanities.
* Disruptive Innovation! The original theory comes from Clayton Christensen’s study of things like the hard drive and steel industries where he realized that disruptive products tend to combine new technologies, cheaper production, and — crucially — worse products.
* Torture of a mentally ill prisoner in a Miami jail.
* Buzzfeed and Schizophrenia. And they said theory is useless!
* Economics in Fantasy Literature, Or, Why Nerds Really Like Stuff.
* We’ve hit Peak Should I Go to Grad School.
* Exit Through the Gift Shop: 9/11 Museum Edition.
* Three months in jail for Cecily McMillan.
* The United States has 710 prisoners per 100,000 people. Iceland has 150. Total.
* White House Promises To Never Again Let The CIA Undermine Vaccinations. Oh, okay, then all is forgiven!
* ‘There Will Be No World Cup': Brazil on the Brink.
* Add “DUI” to the list of crimes rich people don’t have to worry about anymore.
* Duke Libraries is still running its Mad Men series of period advertising. Here’s the link for the latest episode.
* Presenting the Netflix Summary Glitch.
* Washington Archdiocese takes to the heavens, with a drone. Can autonomous robot baptism be far behind?
* The water main breaks will continue until morale improves.
* The actress who helped Lincoln defeat the Confederacy.
* Corey Robin: The Republican War on Workers’ Rights.
* David Harvey reviews Piketty.
* If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on your fond memories of Star Wars, forever. At least the maximally unnecessary Harry Potter prequels suddenly have a chance of being good.
* And the 90s are literally turning to dust.
