An Especially Worthy Entry in Our Ongoing Series of Wednesday Links

* Aaron Bady’s amazing “African Writers in a New World” interview series at Post 45 continues with Teju Cole.

*��Daniel Maguire on the McAdams Case at��Marquette.��Really��hard��to believe they’ve somehow managed to create a situation where McAdams has the better side of the argument.

* Ashon Crawley on Ferguson and utopia.

* Cruel optimism and the NFL (or, Life in the Factory of Sadness).

* Meanwhile:��Patriots Black Ops Division Kills Opposing Team Leaders In Three States; ��All in the Game,�� Says Belichick.

* The NCAA, Last Seen Claiming It Has No Jurisdiction Over Decades-Long��Academic Fraud at UNC,��Says It��s Investigating Academic Fraud at 20 Colleges.

* …or live long enough to become the villain: The Vagina Monologues is now reactionary.

*��Read the letter the FBI sent MLK to try to convince him to kill��himself.��Martin Luther King Jr.��s Stint as an Advice Columnist for Ebony��Magazine.��Happy Robert E. Lee Day!��…anytime the same state and culture invites you to worship a human being they tried to kill, we should be suspicious of the ways they want us to remember.

* I think I rediscover this fact with the same surprise every couple of years:��In 1991, a Boston University investigatory committee concluded that King had indeed plagiarized parts of his dissertation, but found that it was ��impractical to reach, on the available evidence, any conclusions about Dr. King’s reasons for failing to attribute some, but not all, of his sources.�� That is, it could have been anything from malicious intent to simple forgetfulness��no one can determine for sure today. They did not recommend a posthumous revocation of his degree, but instead suggested that a letter be attached to the dissertation in the university library noting the passages lacked quotations and citations.

* Neoliberalism and the Degradation of Education (Alternative Routes, Vol. 26).��A ton of good links here.

* Teach or perish. Teach and perish.

*��80 rich people now have as much as 50% of the rest of humanity combined.��Let’s meet our overlords!

*��Science Fiction Under Totalitarian Regimes, Part 2: Tsarist and Soviet Russia.��Here was Part 1: Germany.

* Coming soon: Keywords for Radicals.

* On the failure to reclaim the word “slut.”

*��When the trains stopped coming down the track, Tryon, NC began to crumble, and since then something disappears each day.

*��Groundbreaking Artwork Reimagines Disney Princesses As Office��Supplies.

*��‘Cultural Marxism': a uniting theory for rightwingers who love to play the victim. This is a term you see in the comment threads no one is supposed to be reading more and more.

*��Overworked�� drone pilots are baling out.��Chomsky:��Obama’s Drone Program ‘The Most Extreme Terrorist Campaign of Modern Times.’

*��Lonesome Alito Declares Marriage Only Between A Man And The Sea.

* True crime watch:��Milwaukee man says stabbing sister, father was ‘right thing to do.’ Spoiler alert: no.

* I want to believe!��Russia Orders Obama: Tell World About Aliens, Or We Will.

* It’s already working!��U.S. Air Force Releases Thousands of Pages Of Declassified UFO Files.

*��10 Rules For Making Better Fantasy Maps.

*��Trustees Refuse to Reconsider Salaita��s Firing: ��That Decision Is��Final.��

* Scenes from the class struggle at the University of California.

* How Did We Get Here? The AAUP’s evolving emphasis on collective bargaining.

*��The twilight of a particular organizational form should not be confused with the end of worker organization itself. Institutions are not permanent, but workers�� interest in organization is. And besides, the current model is disappearing whether we like it or not.

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* Broken clock watch: Cuomo wants a train to La Guardia.

* Star Wars considering casting Tatiana Maslany for every role, one assumes.

* Pay Attention, 007! On the Usability of James Bond’s Gadgets.

*��Majestic Animals That Could Go Extinct This Century.

* A lifetime of being paranoid about this confirmed.

* The trouble with Harley Quinn.��Via io9.

* Sid Meier’s next: Starships.

* And doctors, who have already taken everything from us, want our pizza too.��The��line must be drawn here!