One right-wing bookshop is trying to normalize white supremacist anger. The Anglophone bookshop next door is having none of it. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/two-parisian-bookstores-side-by-side-are-waging-a-culture-war/2019/06/13/d234c051-a5f2-48f1-bd11-48f6bbe71677_story.html
Back in 1995, then World Bank Vice President Ismail Serageldin made an important prediction about the future: “The wars of the next century will be fought over water.” Thankfully, No wars have been fought strictly over water in modern history. In fact globally the number of international agreements over water far exceeds the number of … Continue reading Water scarcity, warfare, and the paradox of value | OUPblog
Democracy and Its Discontents | by Adam Tooze | The New York Review of Books — Read on http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/06/06/democracy-and-its-discontents/
To read William Maxwell now is to be taken back into a time and place lost forever. It is an extraordinary and wonderfully surprising experience — Read on spectator.us/william-maxwell-slightly-foxed/
Historians often envisage a gulf between family history and other engagements with the past, but they can easily overlap. — Read on http://www.historytoday.com/archive/making-history/russia-love
The prescience of art: Erasmus Darwin’s poetry anticipated the theory of evolution before his grandson Charles was even born — Read on aeon.co/ideas/how-erasmus-darwins-poetry-prophesied-evolutionary-theory
Your Roots Shall Make Ye Free - The American Interest — Read on http://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/05/16/your-roots-shall-make-ye-free/
The Rise of Black Intellectual History | The Russell Kirk Center — Read on kirkcenter.org/reviews/rise-of-black-intellectual-history/
The Forever Cotton Kingdom | RealClearBooks — Read on http://www.realclearbooks.com/2019/05/22/the_forever_cotton_kingdom_17661.html
Americans are more receptive to socialism today than any time in memorywith 43% of the adult population willing to embrace some form of the collectivist ideology, according to a May 20th Gallup... — Read on http://www.realclearbooks.com/articles/2019/05/21/why_wont_socialism_die_110201.html
