[BLOG] Some Sunday links

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• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly raves about The Alienist. I certainly did like the Caleb Carr original novel, myself.


• Crooked Timber asks whether immigration laws should be respected, if they are the sorts of laws that should be respected.


• D-Brief takes a look at the rain Cassini detected falling from the rings of Saturn onto the planet they orbit.


• Drew Ex Machina's Andrew LePage takes a look at the Juno V and the birth of the Saturn rocket family.


• At A Fistful of Euros, Alex Harrowell notes how the Greens in Germany seem to be benefiting from the problems of the CSU.


• Marginal Revolution notes how the retaliatory tariffs of China are targeting the economies of Trump-supporting regions of the United States.


• Drew Rowsome reports on Mar, a gay erotic horror film from Portugal.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why information loss from black holes is a problem.


• Window on Eurasia notes the trade of illegal loggers in Russia with Chinese buyers.