SECOND, RUB ACADEMIC NOSES IN REALITY: Professor rejects Marxism after traveling the globe: ‘Socialism doesn’t work’.

FIRST, MAKE COMMUNISM NOT A POSITIONAL GOOD: Professor raised under communism explains academics’ love of socialism – and why they’re wrong.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE: Obama is gutting Medicare.

CONFUSED? DON’T BE: One of my guest posters explain the Brexit in every way you might possibly want to know. Brexit: How, Why and What Next? 

LISA DE PASQUALE: License to Shrill: Feminists Can’t Stop Whining About Their Fake Problems.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Department Of Education Panel Recommends Suspension Of ABA’s Power To Accredit Law Schools Due To Its ‘Lack Of Attention To Student Achievement.’

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MICHAEL WALSH: Five things Trump must do to win the election.

FALLEN ANGELS IS JUST A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL, RIGHT GUYS? RIGHT? GUYS? The sun goes blank again during the weakest solar cycle in more than a century.

BRANDING: How Subarus Came to Be Seen as Cars for Lesbians: The reputation isn’t just a stereotype—it’s the result of a calculated, highly progressive ad campaign launched 20 years ago.

HE’S TALKING ABOUT BREXIT, BUT REALLY THIS IS EVERGREEN:

DAN MARKEL UPDATE: Update On Murder-For-Hire Investigation Into Dan Markel’s Death: Hit Men Thwarted In Previous Attempt To Kill FSU Professor.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: A University Without Professors.

RIP, MICHAEL HERR. Author of Vietnam-era classic Dispatches, the co-screenwriter of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, and the man who wrote the narration for Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now was 76.

Herr’s biography of Stanley Kubrick, focusing primarily on the period the two men worked on Full Metal Jacket is a quick 112 pages, but one of the best portraits of the director I’ve read.

FOR NOW AT LEAST: Sorry, Twitter, #Texit (Texas’ Version of Brexit) Is Going Nowhere.

MEGAN MCARDLE: ‘Citizens of the World’? Nice Thought, But … “The inability of those elites to grapple with the rich world’s populist moment was in full display on social media last night. Journalists and academics seemed to feel that they had not made it sufficiently clear that people who oppose open borders are a bunch of racist rubes who couldn’t count to 20 with their shoes on, and hence will believe any daft thing they’re told. Given how badly this strategy had just failed, this seemed a strange time to be doubling down.”

SCIENCE: Scientists are finally figuring out why you only get mitochondrial DNA from your mum.

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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Temperature Rises In Debate Over New York Times Coverage Of The Law School Crisis.

DISGRACEFUL: Yale Law Dean Robert Post writes oped accusing Exxon of “abusing the First Amendment.” They aren’t even trying to hide their totalitarian tendencies, are they?

PROGRESS IS HARD WORK: The Trials of Turning a Digital Light Projector Into an Ultraviolet 3-D Printer: An enticing idea turns out to be devilishly complex.

A POSTER FAMILY FOR DIVERSITY. My Nigerian sister-in-law, who admittedly is also stunningly attractive, had her picture used 18 times in one university publication.

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THE NEW YORKER WEIGHS IN ON BREXIT: “I do love that the July 4 issue is angrily advertising against independence,” Ben Shapiro tweets.