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The truth matters : a citizen's guide to separating facts from lies and stopping fake news in its tracks / Bruce Bartlett.
Introduction -- Why the traditional media no longer serves our needs -- The difference between primary and secondary sources -- How to use links -- Confusing press conventions -- Journalistic techniques that may obfuscate rather than illuminate sources -- Trusting academic sources -- What your local library has to offer in terms of news -- Numbers must be put into context -- Beware of deceptive labeling -- The perils of polling -- Using Wikipedia -- The problem of fake news -- Designing your own newspaper -- Editorial opinions -- How to fight fake news.
Looks interesting. The book is small both in size (will fit in your pocket) and pages (130+). Hoping it is to the point without much filler.
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I finished "Big Magic" and am on to "Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings of Fleet Maull" and "The Girl With Seven Names: Escape from North Korea"
And yes, I have a third book going (fiction) that I am super-enjoying (the twins book I posted about a week or so ago)
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Q's Legacy by Helene Hanff, who wrote 84, Charing Cross Road.
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I am almost finished with MY ABSOLUTE DARLING by Gabriel Tallent and it is really intense. Every trigger warning possible applies but the quality is high.
Here is npr’s review https://www.npr.org/2017/08/29/54577...er-to-put-down
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After rereading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (in preparation for seeing the movie), I realized it wasn’t as clunky as I remembered.. plus, all the eighties references made my middle-aged heart sing. So I started his next one, Armada. Same basic blueprint (video game geek saves the world), with just as many eighties references. Fun read, even if the details are already disappearing from my memory.
I’m ready for another fast and fun YA read. Any suggestions?
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Yesterday i reviewed some medievalist lit crit comparing middle ages chivalry with Game of Thrones chivalry, appropriately titled CHIVALRY IN WESTEROS. Recommended for all students of the period and fans of the show!
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(Kent Haruf, 2015). A good friend to me recommended seeing the movie, which is adapted from the book, last summer and they just sent the book to me. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, so now I'm going to read this book. Here's an link to am NY Times book review from last June: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/0...ww.google.com/
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Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas.
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I just finished FLEDGLING by Octavia Butler and started THE LATHE OF HEAVEN by Ursula LeGuin and am listening to HILLBILLY ELEGY by J.D. Vance
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The once and future liberal : after identity politics / Mark Lilla.
American liberalism fell under the spell of identity politics, with disastrous consequences. Driven originally by a sincere desire to protect the most vulnerable Americans, the left has now unwittingly balkanized the electorate, encouraged self-absorption rather than solidarity, and invested its energies in social movements rather than in party politics. Lilla goes to show how the left's identity-focused individualism insidiously conspired with the amoral economic individualism of the Reaganite right to shape an electorate with little sense of a shared future and near-contempt for the idea of the common good. In the contest for the American imagination, liberals have abdicated.
-------- This book is fascinating from both a historical and a behavioral standpoint. If you are curious as to why intersectionalism is problematic in both interpersonal movements and political ways, he explains it well.
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Just finished Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas.
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