• Calling all of you “Millennial Marxists” looking for love—there’s an online dating site just for you. Presenting the radical left’s answer to OkCupid, via Critical Theory: OkComrade.
• David Cole reviews Robert A. Ferguson’s new book Inferno, on the “anatomy of human punishment,” for the New York Times, invoking the following statistics at the outset: “The United States may or may not be the leader of the free world, but it is indisputably the world leader in locking up human beings behind bars. We are less than 5 percent of the world’s population, but we warehouse 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated population. Our per capita incarceration rate is seven times greater than France’s, 14 times greater than Japan’s and 24 times greater than India’s.”
• A new Duke University study has found that rich people are smarter than you, reports CNBC. The proof, as reported by CNBC? “About a third of the world’s billionaires attended elite schools worldwide. Even among billionaires, the billionaires with higher wealth were more likely to have gone to a top college.” Because obviously elite-college admission never has anything to do with ability to pay, and (only) everything to do with smarts. Science!
• In related news, FiveThirtyEight has determined that, of the world’s 1,640 billionaires, twenty-nine are under forty years old, and most of those are American men. Most of the billionaires on the under-forty list are tech entrepreneurs, although we have to give a special shout-out to thirty-three-year-old Marie Besnier Beauvalot of France, who currently enjoys a $2.8 billion cheese fortune.
