Monday Medley

What we read while blindly supporting Americans we’ve never heard of…

• Would James Eagan Holmes have been stopped if he were Muslim? Some in Colorado think so. Speaking of which, the story of how the NYPD’s Muslim surveillance program was exposed.

• Colson Whitehead’s advice on how to write.

• What are the real lessons from the life and career of Steve Jobs?

• It’s articles like this — on beach volleyball — that make us want to read The Guardian for diction alone.

• Aziz Ansari talks to Pitchfork about the maturation of his comedy.

• Obamacare may exacerbate the shortage of doctors over the next decade.

• What ever happened to leisure?

• This Week in Oral History: The ’96 Olympics bombing.

• Rahm Emanuel goes after free speech in Chicago.

• One of the Too Big To Fail pioneers suggests breaking up banks. Meanwhile, the government continues to try to protect the banking industry. And speaking of Wall Street: the worst of the 1%.

• Ugly covers for great books.

• Apparently your porn habits vary by season.

Monday Medley

What we read while Mega Millions disproved rational choice theory…

• John Calipari won his showdown with Rick Pitino, the ex-Wildcat coach and Calipari’s former mentor. Of course, the Louisville-Kentucky rivalry predates those coaches. Chuck Klosterman, meanwhile, fears what a Kentucky championship could mean for college basketball’s future. John Gasaway ain’t buying it.

• It was a rough week for fans of President Obama’s health care law, as the oral arguments at the Supreme Court did not bode well for the individual mandate, which puts the entire bill in jeopardy. Molly Ball of The Atlantic and Jonathan Chait at New York are already wondering what will happen if the bill gets struck down. Orin Kerr opines on the individual mandate oral argument. Meanwhile, health care keeps getting more and more expensive, with few solutions in sight.

• Speaking of The Atlantic, its Facebook timeline now stretches back into the 19th century.

• Splitsider remembers the greatest April Fools’ Day joke of them all.

• How did the Daily Mail become England’s biggest paper?

• Senator Rand Paul, fresh off blocking more needless drug laws, blocked a bill ramping up sanctions on Iran.

• Who killed last summer’s debt deal?

• Someone speaks up about fraternity hazing at Dartmouth. We’re just glad to see a prominent university other than Duke come under fire for once.

• A Marxist analysis of modern capitalism. And speaking of modern capitalism: An underage prostitution ring, brought to you by Goldman Sachs.

• Is there a separate legal system in America for Muslims? It certainly seems that way sometimes, based on what people pay attention to.

• Kurt Vonnegut’s response to the burning of his books.

• Two interesting looks at copyright law: A story on Apple’s war with Android, and a look at how copyrights kill books.

• Speaking of Android: Is it an Android phone or a condom?

• Tyler Cowen reports on remembering e-books compared to paper books.