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Essential election reading: Darryl Pinckney’s new book, ‘Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy’ http://j.mp/1rktecL
Among the plant hunters: who knew botanical artists were so fascinating? From the NYRB. http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/gallery/2014/sep/23/plant-hunters/ …
The “inkblot” strategy for reducing violence in Syria: local truces that can combine into larger areas of stability http://j.mp/ZfZK4m
Well, here we are: I ranked all of the Martin Scorsese movies. ALL OF THEM. http://wp.me/p2Xrlp-20DJ via @flavorwire
Toward a more realistic policy goal in #Syria: Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson’s cease-fire-based plan http://j.mp/1yu3VJ3
Darwin never considered himself a genius. “I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit,” he said http://j.mp/1ufc7GP
Greek poets, storytellers, and mythographers attached tales of unhappy love to the glorious flowers around them. http://j.mp/1Cci9g4
In 2010, more than half of federal prison inmates were drug offenders. Christopher Jencks on our failed crime policy: http://j.mp/1uiZY7q
How old is too old in opera? Soprano Magda Olivero gave her last public performance when she was 99 http://j.mp/1CieLAq
"Young people may have made the revolutions of 2011, but they also played a large part in the violence and mayhem that followed." #pt
The soprano Magda Olivero had a incredible 76-year career. Martin Filler remembers hearing her in Tosca at the Met http://j.mp/1CieLAq
“These deeply melancholy movies are beautiful objects of contemplation.” J. Hoberman on the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien: http://j.mp/1p4m5aI
What’s behind the harsh jail sentence for #IlhamTohti? Beijing wants to eliminate moderate Uighurs, says Wang Lixiong http://j.mp/XXoH3h
Botanical drawings from the 16th to the 20th centuries http://j.mp/1Cci9g4 pic.twitter.com/QYombv9Sls
Seneca: an exemplar of Stoic virtue amid the corruption of imperial Rome, or a dissembler and hypocrite? Maybe both. http://j.mp/1Cci77U
Christopher Jencks on punitive policing, rising incarceration, and employer prejudice against black job applicants http://j.mp/1uiZY7q
How Stoical Was Seneca? There is something elusive, even a whiff of “spin,” about him, writes @wmarybeard http://j.mp/1Cci77U
“Governments don’t just make mistakes; they sometimes set out deliberately to mislead us.” The problem with nudging: http://j.mp/XNaipM
Fantastic piece from @freedland about what's next for the UK http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/sep/22/what-scotland-won/?insrc=wbll …
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