Weekly Reading (01/28/2019)
Selections from the Web:
- Alex Pareene: The Digital Winter Turns Apocalyptic
- Corey Robin: The Plight of the Political Convert
- Elizabeth Catte: Finding the Future in Radical Rural America
- Greg Grandin: The Border Patrol Has Been a Cult of Brutality Since 1924
- Hannes Grassegger: The Unbelievable Story Of The Plot Against George Soros
- Leila McNeill: The Statistician Who Debunked Sexist Myths About Skull Size and Intelligence
- Sabra Ayres: In St. Petersburg, a Stalwart of the 1917 Revolution Lives On: The Communal Apartment
- Sheila Fitzpatrick: People and Martians
- Steven Hahn: Is Populism What’s Really Threatening Democracy?
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- Paul Ericson, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Thomas Sturm, and Michael D. Gordin: How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Case of Cold War Rationality (2013) [reread]