At The TLS: Deidre Mccloskey takes the measure of Thomas Piketty, and finds him wanting: Surprise?

Jonathan Haidt opines as to 'why public discourse has become so stupid': Yascha Mounk plays apprentice to the Master.

At the TLS: Tom Stevenson rhetorical sketch book, about the vexing question of 'geopolitical realignment'.

Our Man from Opus Dei, Ross Douthat on The Supreme Court 'leak': the pose of the 'Impartial Spectator' evaporates in the heat of a severe scolding for 'The Left/Liberals'.

@jonathanchait on Henry Wallace as part of a 'a left-wing splinter faction'... was run largely by members of the Communist Party.'

An advocacy/defence of Derrida: featuring Freud, Peter Salmon, Robert Trumbull, '“After Deconstruction: Rebuilding science and culture”...

@NYT & @DLeonhardt almost breathe a sigh of relief ? Macron, Macron, Macron...