Must Read

• Kenneth Burke, Waste – The Future of Prosperity [Ed.:  From 1930]
• Chris Dillow, Cognitive biases, ideology & control
• Bernie Sanders (NYT), Democrats Need to Wake Up

Should Read

• Colin Dwyer, Pope Francis: Church Should Apologize To Gays And Other Marginalized Groups
• Neta Crawford,  Are We Safer? Measuring The Costs Of America’s Unending Wars
• Jared Bernstein, Getting straight about the costs of trade
• Chris Dillow, Control: beyond left and right
• Corey Robin, Why Clinton’s New Tuition-Free Higher Ed Plan Matters
• Karl Polanyi [Ed.:  I haven’t read any of Polanyi’s work.  I should.]
• Rev. John Gibbons and Chief Robert Bongiorno – an email exchange

Public Policy

• Andrew Gelman, Broken broken windows policy?

Foreign Policy

• Carne Ross (NYT), Chilcot Report: How Tony Blair Sold the War
• Gareth Porter, Why the Sanders “Revolution” Must Take on the Permanent War State
• Marina Koren, The High Price of War:  Suicide, the leading cause of death among veterans, claimed 20 lives a day in 2014, according to a new report.

Brexit

• Stephen Castle (NYT), Having Won, Some ‘Brexit’ Campaigners Begin Backpedaling [Ed.:  Backpedaling, eh?  I’m shocked.]
• Richard Eskow, Dear Tony Blair: It’s Not the Pitch, It’s the Product.  [Ed.:  No, I am not nor have I ever been a fan of Tony Blair.]
• David Dayen, Who’s to Blame for Brexit? The Elites
• Matt Taibbi, The Reaction to Brexit Is the Reason Brexit Happened

Economics

• Antonio Callari, Economists as public intellectuals
• Mark Thoma, Why the Public Has Stopped Paying Attention to Economists

Politics

• Chris Dillow, The Same Old Mistakes
• Adam Johnson, Some Pundits Think the Solution to Right-Wing Populism Is Less Democracy
• Barry Lynn and Philip Longman, Populism With a Brain

Culture

• Farhad Manjoo (NYT), Why We Need to Pick Up Alvin Toffler’s Torch
• Russell Poldrack, What Is Loss Aversion?

Science

• Matt McGrath, ‘Healing’ detected in Antarctic ozone hole
• Ed Hawkins, Reconciling estimates of climate sensitivity
• Tim Stephens, Astronomers find evidence of water clouds in first spectrum of coldest brown dwarf
• Chad Orzel, What Ancient Roman Buildings Teach Us About Science And Engineering

Ending on a Positive Note

• Jonathan Blaustein (NYT), A Comprehensive Look at California and the West
• Rachel Quednau, Small-Scale Change, Neighborhood by Neighborhood