Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- “No Fatties”: When Health Care Hurts (“According to the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, one out of three doctors responds to obesity negatively and associates it with poor hygiene, hostility, dishonesty, and noncompliance, viewing fat patients as ‘lazy, lacking in self-control, non-compliant, unintelligent, weak-willed and dishonest.'”)
- Trump Is the New ________ (“Once in front of the camera … historian-heavyweights trade in … scholarship for trivia-minded TV punditry. They hawk banality. Quizzed by anchors, boxed into panels, these academics have become cable contestants in a game of History-wood Squares.”)
- Is There Any Hope for the Future? (“We must accept that any subjective religion, philosophy, or opinion can’t be a basis for defining what is true.”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Bookish Linkage
- The problem of “problematic” book reviews
- Shouldn’t there be fewer dead white guys on school reading lists?
- The oldest treasures of 12 great libraries
- A recent survey showed 41% of Republicans want books with witchcraft, wizardry, or magic as a theme banned from elementary school libraries and 28% don’t think they belong in high schools
- They’re back: best books of the year lists
- The CIA funding and support of literary magazines
- Bookish Lists: 10 books about the brain; 6 famous authors injured while writing
Nonbookish Linkage
- A history of America’s addiction to amphetamines
- How the Civil War may have influenced Marxism
- A history of applications for UFO patents
- The conflict between Spain and Catalonia explained
Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Justice Louise J. Brandeis (concurring), Whitney v. California (1927)
