June 2, 2015

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The desire to have a past outstrips the desire to know anything meaningful about it. India’s “mytho-nationalist” worldview. #opinions

How a University of Arizona professor precipitated media’s transformed coverage of Caitlyn Jenner.

Sort through The Counted: the people who’ve been killed by police in the US so far this year.

China’s strategic investments in infrastructure abroad exhibit a conservative tendency.

A review of IS’s new Russian magazine, which pales in comparison to its “slick” English publication.

Malaysian court finds Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, others—in absentia—guilty of war crimes.

Error reports—like you can send after Office crashes—contain juicy info for spies and hackers.

Growing up in Nigeria, cyber cafes were a taste of the future, and now mobile internet is killing them off.

Case study in the fall of fast food: Subway loses at its own game as fresher competitors enter fray.

A third of the global population of an endangered antelope has recently died due to illness.

Gallup shows since 2001 Americans have become a lot more comfortable with polygamy and cloning.

Christian music’s decline has more to do a waning interest in Christianity than Spotify’s profit suck.

The Christianizing music scene turns “Pour Some Sugar on Me” into “Learn Some Deuteronomy.”

And what is so rare as a day in June? A line of poetry improbably remembered.

“Reader, insists the poem, you and I make the choice to go on living with the knowledge of going on living.”

The Hardy Boys live on because capitalism figured out a way to minimize costs: ghostwriters.

Women writing novels about women doesn’t win literary awards.