These links are two weeks in the making, which means they’re both twice as good and half out-dated.

• The Writer As Meme Machine.
• Where’s the Suspicion in Suspicious Activity Reports?
• Teach For America Rises as Political Powerhouse.
• Homecoming at Howard.
• America’s New Hunger Crisis.
• Charity Assets, on the Omidyar Network and social enterprise.
• How the Pope Could Tear Apart the Religious Right.
• How a Drug Raid Gone Wrong Sparked Police Reform in Utah.
• A Good Men’s Rights Movement is Hard to Find:

[M]ake no mistake: anti-woman hate is the defining feature of the [Men’s Rights Associations], and the examples above are the rule, not the exception. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a storied civil rights organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, told 20/20: “The Manosphere is an underworld of so-called men’s rights groups and individuals on the Internet, which is just fraught with really hard-line anti-woman misogyny.” A Voice For Men makes no excuses for their hatred of women, from posts ranting about women who are “begging to be raped” to treatises about how fat women want to be sexually violated because it would mean we are desired. Warren Farrell, the aforementioned “father” of the modern MRAs—he openly called date rape “exciting” and said that incest can be a good thing—has recently signed on as a regular AVFM contributor. For over a year, AVFM hosted in their “activism” section a call to firebomb courthouses written by a man who actually lit himself on fire in front of one. Paul Elam himself wrote an infamous post in which he vowed that, should he ever be called to serve on the jury for a rape trial, he would vote to acquit even if he believed the defendant was guilty.

As bad as Men’s Rights Activists are for women (and, really, for our collective humanity), they’re also doing harm to the causes they claim to care about. When an AVFM contributor in Australia called a hotline posing as a man being beaten by his wife and needing a shelter for himself and his son, he claims he was denied help. But if you listen to the recording (or read the transcript), you can clearly hear the counselor on the other line offer multiple forms of assistance, including a free hotel for himself and his son, a direct connection to a police officer specializing in domestic violence, and more. Far from their tagline “compassion for men and boys,” this incident reveals that MRAs are happy to abandon men and boys to real danger when it suits their hate campaign against women.

• Why Millenials Are Pro-Union, But Don’t Join Them.
• What Vampire Graves Tell Us About Ancient Superstitions.
• Why Doesn’t Anyone Read Dante’s Paradiso?
• On Organized Labor in New Haven.
• A Diary of a Trip to Four Nigerian Cities.
• Purity Culture as Rape Culture: Why the Theological is Political.
• The Immorality of College Admissions:

Only 3.8 percent of American families make more than $200,000 per year. But at Harvard University, 45.6 percent of incoming freshman come from families making $200,000 or more. A mere 4 percent of Harvard students come from a family in the bottom quintile of US incomes, and only 17.8 percent come from the bottom three quintiles.

“We admit students without any regard for financial need – a policy we call ‘need-blind admission’,” Harvard’s website proudly proclaims. Harvard charges $54,496 per year for tuition, room and board, but waives the fees for families making less than $60,000 per year.

This would be a laudable policy were Harvard admitting low-income students in any significant numbers, but they are not. Instead, they fill their ranks with the children of the elite portrayed in Miller’s article – elites who drop hundreds of thousands of dollars on private schools, exorbitant “enrichment” activities, and personal tutors that almost no Americans can afford.

• Mapping Europe’s War on Immigration.
• Ted Cruz Doesn’t Know What the Government Gives Him, and He’s Not Alone.
• The Great Forgetting.
• The Riddle of Amazon.
• Pennies From Heaven.
• Cory Booker’s Corporate Ties That Bind.
• The Way Hollywood Frames Slavery.
• What People Really Think About Women, Men, and Feminists.