Part 3 of The Guardian’s fantastic series on Baruch Spinoza.  Part 1 can be found here, part 2 here.

• Sam Lipsyte hates cheaters.

• Why do students want to go to more elite colleges?

• Glad people are catching on that “Emma Straub is the real deal.”

• Alfred Hitchcock never won on Oscar.

• A good chunk of the population think Ronald Reagan is the greatest president ever.