Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- How Real Is “Cancel Culture?” (“When moderate Americans are afraid to voice their views, it allows those who operate at political extremes—often in bad-faith—to dominate the discussion.”)
Idiocy of the Week
- Expression of First Amendment rights leaves 68-year-old Indiana man banned from public library
Nonbookish Linkage
- When Mr. Rogers sued the KKK
- Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade is an online treasure trove of information about slave trade in America
- Forty percent of those arrested in the Capitol riot are business owners or white-collar workers
- What actually is the scientific method?
- The story of an English village that self-quarantined to stop the Black Death from spreading to others
- Here’s one (expensive) way to complain to your internet provider
- COVID-19 produces record enrollment by minor league hockey players in career enhancement program funded by their union
Bookish Linkage
- The library of possible futures: “pop futurism”
- The cover of the first New York Times Book Review
Stupidity is a sickness that goes very well with fear.
Phillipe Claudel, Brodeck
