Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- How Did ‘Witch Hunt’ Become the Complaint of the Powerful? (“The central paradox of modern witch hunts is that those who claim to be the victims, like Nixon, are often the ones most enthusiastic about carrying them out.”)
- Make America, America again (“A loose translation of ‘America first’ now means all others shall be ignored or denied or bombed out of existence, if necessary, to achieve our own power and profits, our own goals and good.”)
Bookish Linkage
- Ways to support independent publishers
- An interesting analysis of the LibraryReads lists, in which librarians pick the top 10 books published each month
- How George Orwell’s 1984 almost didn’t happen
- Bookish Lists: 10 books about Chicago’s South Side; 11 books to understand LGBTQ issues; 10 reasons some of us love to read in bed
Nonbookish Linkage
- Sure, blame the intern. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
- Can’t monkey with habeas corpus
- Why Americans will never give up their guns
- The best of Cassini
…the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world
George Orwell, “Looking Back On The Spanish War” (1943)
