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As in so many places across the country, tensions seem to be running high at Rutgers University after the election. On Tuesday, a professor was taken by police to a psychiatric hospital,… Read more »

In a statement at once touching and vaguely threatening, the Nobel Academy announced on Wednesday that literary-laureate-to-be Bob Dylan “has decided not to come to Stockholm.” According to the release, Dylan… Read more »

I’m simply a pessimist. [Coordinated European state action in favor of refugees] will not happen, which means, maybe, that it’s the end of Europe the way we know it. The only… Read more »