[BLOG] Some Monday links

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• Hornet Stories reports that there is now an out K-Pop star, the new Holland.


• Russell Arben Fox at In Media Res calls for the defeat of the disastrous Trump through crushing electoral defeats.


• JSTOR Daily notes the profound impact, social and otherwise, that Richardson's pioneering novel Pamela had on 18th century Europe.


• Language Log notes the declining use of the definite article in Agatha Christie and Ross Macdonald.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the need for a proper understanding of the political thought of Martin Luther King.


• The NYR Daily looks at an exhibition of the portraits of Jean-Honoré Fragonard.


• Drew Rowsome treats Get Out as a documentary, as much as a compelling horror movie about race relations.


• Window on Eurasia worries about the effective of private military groups, if allowed to become bigger, on Russian foreign policy. Question: what has their impact been on American foreign policy?