Bulletin Board
- Whether hurricane hangover or whatever, there was no Weekend Edition last week as not much struck me as worth passing along. As a result, a couple items below are a week or so old.
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- Snopes and the Search for Facts in a Post-Fact World (“As pretty much anyone knows, the truth can be a slippery bastard.”)
- Ignorance Is Strength: The Political Fight For The Right to 1984 Memes (“…it’s interesting how both ends of America’s political spectrum hurl 1984 memes at each other accusingly, confident that their own party is the enemy of Orwell’s Party.”)
- The Post-Literate American Presidency (“Being post-print, Trump is also post-ideological. It’s not just that he doesn’t adhere to coherent principles; he doesn’t seem capable of grasping what constitutes coherent thought itself.”)
Bookish Linkage
- My friend Kevin Woster interviews Tim O’Brien, whose The Things They Carried is one of my Desert Island Books
- Banned Books Week starts tomorrow
- The creation and growth of world literature
- It appears B&N has given up on the Nook
- The Hobbit at 80
- The secret history of Frank Herbert’s Dune
- Bookish Lists: 13 illuminating books about the Vietnam War; Man Booker Prize shortlist (I’ve read one and started but DNF another); back-to-school reads for lifelong learners; National Book Award longlists for nonfiction and fiction; 112 great to “absolutely freaking great” Russian writers
Nonbookish Linkage
- Is Trump addicted to violence?
- How comics reflected American opinions on the Vietnam War
- Women’s suffrage @100
- Is it time to retire the legend of Robert E. Lee?
- Get yourself some baloney detection kits
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, June 24, 1953
