Weekend Edition: 8-19

Bulletin Board

• My review of The Irrationalist has been republished at BookGlow

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez

• America At The End of All Hypotheticals (“…despicable speech is protected by the First Amendment, and should remain so.”)
• The Fallout From Sportswriting’s Filthiest Fuck-Up (“A butchered score? Not such a big deal. An underage soccer player alleged to have performed fellatio on the fecal-covered penis of a burro? Problem.”)
• Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (“It’s not an exaggeration to describe iGen as being on the brink of the worst mental-health crisis in decades. Much of this deterioration can be traced to their phones.”)

Blog Headlines of the Week

• One-Third of Americans Support Trump’s Reaction to Charlottesville, and Seriously, Fuck Them
• Mets vs. Yankees? America Couldn’t Care Less, New York

Bookish Linkage

• Communist bookstores in 20th century America
• A periodic table of literary villains
• Silent Book Club, a “cocktail hour for introverts”
• Bookish Lists: 5 books on America’s problem with white supremacy; 19 books that will definitely make you smarterb 5 books with bargains you don’t want to make

Nonbookish Linkage

• White supremacists and their medievalism fantasies
• The key difference between ‘nationalists’ and ‘supremacists’
• The long history of white nationalism in America
• The internet is making me sick
• The Atlantic‘s Civil War reader
• Do protests work?
• Whataboutism is new to me
• Why do we sleep under blankets, even in the summer?
• The case for deleting your social media accounts

Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night