Friday End of the Semester Why Aren’t I Already Sleeping Links

* Don’t Sanitize Nelson Mandela: He’s Honored Now, But Was Hated Then. Apartheid’s Useful Idiots. History Needs to Be Honest. The National Review, American Conservatism, and Nelson Mandela. Six Things Nelson Mandela Believed That Most People Won’t Talk About. The Island. Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel. Some reservations about non-violent resistance. Mandela and the Pistons. The inevitable Žižek. Be Nelson Mandela.

* The 130 cities where fast-food workers struck Thursday.

* Graduate students and labor organizing after NYU and UAW.

* Many New Ph.D.’s Emerge Deeper in Debt Than in the Past, Survey Shows.

* It’s Not Just Football: Other college athletes are actually more likely to suffer concussions.

* Great moments in legal absurdism: Unarmed Man Is Charged With Wounding Bystanders Shot by Police Near Times Square.

* The climate of Middle Earth.

* And the US has drawn an epically bad World Cup group. Well, there’s always 2018…