Link Roundup #19: Warren's Ideas, Sexism in the Academy, Ketamine Trips, & Rihanna

Links I’ve Been Meaning to Read #19

• Warren’s nonstop ideas reshape the Democratic presidential race — and give her new momentum [The Washington Post]

• Sexism in the Academy: Women’s narrowing path to tenure [n+1] - Shoutout to Ann Friedman’s newsletter, which I love, and which is where I saw the link to this article

• ‘Useless Chaos Is What Fiction Is About’: Mavis Gallant & Jhumpa Lahiri [Granta]

• The Banality of Empathy [The New York Review of Books]

• The working witches of Los Angeles just want you to be your best self [LA Times]

• Natural philosophy redux: The great split between science and philosophy must be repaired. Only then can we answer the urgent, fundamental problems [Aeon]

• Ketamine trips are uncannily like near-death experiences [Aeon]

• Rachel Kushner’s American Gothic: The Bestselling Author And National Book Award Finalist (Twice) Is Building Characters [Ssense]

• MEET RIHANNA, THE SHY GAL* [Interview]

*My brain really wants to correct this to gyal because I think that’s what they meant?