Signs

Increased exposure to opposite-sex members of other class groups generates a substantial increase in interclass marriage, but increased exposure to other race groups has no detectable effect on interracial marriage.--a paper

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A Danish government program effectively mandates integration in certain low-income neighborhoods where many “non-Western” immigrants live. The government says the plan is meant to dismantle “parallel societies” — which officials describe as segregated enclaves where immigrants do not participate in the wider society or learn Danish, even as they benefit from the country’s generous welfare system.

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[I]t is not the industrial proletariat which is the breeding ground for socialism but the academic and intellectual proletariat and therefore it is here that the danger for society is greatest and a remedy most urgently required.--Röpke

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Signs

At a news conference of politicians commemorating the murders at Lewiston, Maine, the senator at the microphone asked the camera to include the signer who was signing the speech for television.

This signing is a curious phenomenon. It has an inclusion feel, like participation trophies, making sure that significance alone does not determine our attention.

What is the purpose of signing a televised speech in the age of closed captioning? Not only is it redundant, it is a distraction from whatever the message of the speaker is. Yet it seems to have its own momentum.

At a memorial for the Gaza victims, the signers signed for a moment of silence.