[BLOG] Some Monday links

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• Ingrid Robeyns at Crooked Timber takes us from her son's accidental cut to the electronic music of Røbic.


• D-Brief explains what the exceptional unexpected brightness of the first galaxies reveals about the universe.


• Far Outliers looks at how President Grant tried to deal with the Ku Klux Klan.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the surprising influence of the Turkish harem on the fashion, at least, of Western women.


• This Kotaku essay arguing that no one should be sitting on the Iron Throne makes even better sense to me now.


• Language Hat looks at the particular forms of French spoken by the famously Francophile Russian elites of the 19th century.


• Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how teaching people to code did not save the residents of an Appalachia community.


• Marginal Revolution notes how, in the early 19th century, the young United States trading extensively with the Caribbean, even with independent Haiti.


• At the NYR Daily, Colm Tóibín looks at the paintings of Pat Steir.


• Peter Rukavina writes about how he has been inspired by the deaths of the Underhays to become more active in local politics.


• Daniel Little at Understanding Society shares his research goals from 1976.


• Window on Eurasia notes the conflicts between the Russian Orthodox Church and some Russian nationalists over the latter's praise of Stalin.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at dragons in history, queer and otherwise.