Weekly Reading (2021/01/04)
Selections from the Web:
- Abby C: Education privatization advocates find an opportunity in the school reopening debate
- Bernice Yeung and Michael Grabell: How the History of Waterloo, Iowa, Explains How Meatpacking Plants Became Hotbeds of COVID-19
- Enzo Rossi AND Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò: What’s New About Woke Racial Capitalism (and What Isn’t)
- Maya Kosoff: Big Calculator: How Texas Instruments Monopolized Math Class
- Phoebe Weston: Mass Die-Off of Birds in South-Western US ‘Caused by Starvation’
- Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz: Surprise Medical Bills Cost Americans Millions. Congress Finally Banned Most of Them.
- Sheila Fitzpatrick: To King’s Cross Station
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- Herman Melville: Moby-Dick (1851)
- James Blish: A Case of Conscience (1958)