The New York Times reports that Andrew Ross, a professor at New York University, was barred this weekend from flying to Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, where NYU maintains a fancy, newly built campus:

Maybe you're spending your Labor Day weekend on the beach, or in the woods, or in front of a computer. Either way, you're probably not being paid by a Kazakh autocrat to bore his grandson's wedding guests, because that is already what Kanye West is doing this weekend.