some links for the weekend (what's left of it)

over at The Atlantic an author has an article in which the title speaks of how Trump pits elite whites and non-elite whites against each other and the Democratic party keeps falling for it and, why?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-democrats-white-people-problem/573901/

keeping things Atlantic, Ed Yong had a piece that says the replication crisis is leaving the whole field of psychology without any plausible excuses

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/psychologys-replication-crisis-real/576223/

Kori Schake has a piece called "The End of the American Order"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/halifax-forum-allies-mourn-pre-trump-america/576154/

thumbnail sketch, in the era of Trump's presidency where he seems to think lightly of internationalist alliances European powers have begun to make policy decisions that can signal the end of the American order or American preeminence globally.  Since I've been skeptical in the last ten years about the long-term viability of internationalist Atlanticism I can't say I'm hugely shocked by such a piece.  To put it another way, as I've considered the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of one of Francis Schaeffer's more famous books I've been saying this a lot, that Francis Schaeffer was so busy lamenting the post-Christian America he saw in his lifetime he didn't seem to stop to consider what a post-American Christianity might look like, and by that I don't mean a world in which the United States doesn't exist as a political region so much as a world in which the "world" does not automatically look to the United States as the leader of the "free world". 

Alia Wong has a piece on the at times devastating psychological pressures of grad school and doctoral studies

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/11/anxiety-depression-mental-health-graduate-school/576769/

apropos of nothing, perhaps, a recent piece in Inside Higher Education discusses how the history major has reached a new low of enrollment and student interest

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/11/27/new-analysis-history-major-data-says-field-new-low-can-it-be-saved

on a more pedestrian note, someone at Slate has written about "floaters" and what they are inside your eyes if you have them and what you can do about them (spoiler alert, absolutely nothing).