Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- America is ending (“The fights over masks and vaccinations for Covid-19 is an overwhelming measure of intellectual and moral deterioration of the country.”)
- The Largest Autocracy on Earth (“The freedom to destroy yourself is one thing. The freedom to destroy democratic society is quite another.”)
Nonbookish Linkage
- A professor’s mixed emotions in a South Dakota college classroom
- How “truth” became a controversial subject in classrooms
- A conspiracy theory bubble?
- How small false beliefs can be dangerous
- Christian nationalism is one of the strongest predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
- The strange death of conservative America
- The men who are killing America’s newspapers
- Exploring the “well of hell”
- Medieval peasants worked fewer hours than modern Americans
Bookish Linkage
- Who knew? The Simpsons library
- It’s October so Publishers Weekly released its list of the best books of 2021
[A] successful printed book is a stone dropped in water, its message rippling outwards to hundreds, thousands, millions.
John Man, The Gutenberg Revolution
