[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about the importance of truth in journalism.


• Crooked Timber looks at the example of Trump and wonders why that kind of charismatic authoritarianism is popular.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a model of the inner debris disk of HR 8799.


• Far Outliers looks at the cultural divergences between North and South Koreans.


• Language Hat looks at the complexities of translating the obscenities of the Marquis de Sade.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the collapse of unions and makes a limited defense of Castro.


• Marginal Revolution links to a plan in the United States to make social science research more productive.


• The NYRB Daily shares Masha Gessen's article talking about the hard choices she had to make in Putin's Russia and their relevance to the United States.


• Window on Eurasia argues that Russia's Ukrainian policy may be self-destructive.