Amidst the summer doldrums, the world kept on turning. Here are some stories that caught our eye this week:

SCOTUS and higher education:

• Justice Kennedy’s retirement will hurt. A lot. At Hechinger.
• Janus might help the plight of the adjunct, at CHE.

In defense of segregation, at CJ.

Seventy years and counting…

Should anti-Trumpists remain civil? A reminder of “the last time the Left got nasty,” at Politico.

God likes both poems and equations: Michael Shermer reviews Alan Lightman’s Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine at NYT.

UFO history: A craze that keeps on crazing, at PM.

Law professors against Title IX “retaliation,” at Cornell Sun.

Wisconsin Supreme Court rules in favor of conservative faculty curmudgeon, at IHE.