Department of Weekend Reading: May 16, 2014

Trying to get a meeting with a professor? First make sure you’re the right race and gender.
More guns but fewer gun owners.
Orwell, war,and margarine.
The original Washington Monument.
How Hillary Clinton’s memoirreminds one reviewer ofVeep.
The bad news: sea levels will rise up to a dozen feet; the “good” news: it’ll take a while to happen; also, keep an eye on Greenland.
Print and read: Don’t call them union-busters.