Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- America the Possible: A Manifesto, Part I (“The hard truth is that our political system today is simply incapable of meeting the great challenges described here. What we have is third-rate governance at a time when the challenges we face require first-rate governance.”) (via)
- The Difference Between Public and Private Morality (“America’s problem isn’t a breakdown in private morality. It’s a breakdown in public morality. What Americans do in their bedrooms is their own business. What corporate executives and Wall Street financiers do in boardrooms and executive suites affects all of us.” (via)
- John Stuart Mill And The Dangers Of Silencing (“The conclusions we reach, after testing ideas against arguments and evidence, will often offend us, offend others, offend perhaps something called ‘common moral decency’. Yet, offence is irrelevant to truth.”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Bookish Linkage
- Daily Dispatches from the Internet’s Worst Reviewers (via)
- The battle of the book tournaments
- The teenage craze for dystopian fiction
- New censorship is about money, not ethics
Nonbookish Linkage
- Photos of a world without people (including South Dakota)
- Yeah, this will turn out well: The Department of Homeland Security is testing a security program that can supposedly “sense” whether you are planning to commit a crime. (via)
- The difference between us and them
- This Brit has given me new goals in life
Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
John Stuart Mill, “The Subjection of Women”
