Radical Reading: Detroit – I Do Mind Dying
This is the second in a series where I read and discuss a radical book on the left or right. This time, I address a book related to radical Black organizing in Detroit in the 60s and 70s.
Category: Books
Slavery’s Legacies, Addiction’s Realities: Delicious Foods, by James Hannaham
Slavery, like the past, isn’t past. It ain’t even dead yet.
An Admirable Attempt: Theodore Dalrymple’s Admirable Evasions
The problem with psychology, and the seductive fallacy of “studies have shown.”
Book Notes: “Violence Girl” by Alice Bag
The memoir of an East L.A. barrio girl turned punk rock legend.
Edward Feser: Possibly the Worst New Atheist Book Yet – First Things
Biologist Jerry Coyne has managed to write what might be the worst book yet published in the New Atheist genre…
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms & Pythagoras
I’m super-interested in this book, just like Bill Clinton is and John Adams and Thomas Jefferson probably would have been.
The Fifth Annual Mindless Diversions Unsolicited Shopping Guide
If you’re stuck wondering what do I get for the person who has everything (or you just want to see what we think is cool), we’re here to help!
“You must have no masters, for you are a master”
What do you say to your young aspiring writer friend who just wrote The Sun Also Rises?
Louise Glück and the Aspiration of Poetry
What do anthologies do to the experience of reading poetry? And what makes a poem a poem, anyway?
Shakespeare in American Politics
Guest Author T. Greer eulogizes the neglect of our literary heritage in contemporary rhetoric.
Skipping The Summer Reading
This essay is about reading gay porn before class. And it resurrects an Ideological Outrage Of The Day from 2012. And a graphic novel. And striking out romantically. And Richard Dawkins.
U.S. Grant, Artistic Genius…
“Grant arrived at his operational vision through perceptual speed and a ‘gift of historic imagination,’ that enabled him to ‘take in at a glance the whole field of war, to form a correct opinion of every suggested and possible…campaign, their logical order and sequence, their relative value, and the interdependence of one upon the other.'”
Book Review: Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett
Picking a book at random from the “Hey check this out” list works out very well, at least this time.
