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Glimpse Into the Ideological Monoculture of Literary New York - Quillette
This story ends with a win. My book is being published—even if, like most other writers, I would have liked a fatter contract with wider distribution. But despite that, there is something about my experience among New York’s literati that’s left a bad taste in my mouth. For all the predictable speechifying about “diversity” that I heard at cocktail parties and literary events, I became struck by just how politically monolithic this scene really is. It’s not just that writers and editors have to be PC when it comes to their books and their public pronouncements: There also seems to be a crushing uniformity in regard to their privately held viewpoints.
Glimpse Into the Ideological Monoculture of Literary New York - Quillette
This story ends with a win. My book is being published—even if, like most other writers, I would have liked a fatter contract with wider distribution. But despite that, there is something about my experience among New York’s literati that’s left a bad taste in my mouth. For all the predictable speechifying about “diversity” that I heard at cocktail parties and literary events, I became struck by just how politically monolithic this scene really is. It’s not just that writers and editors have to be PC when it comes to their books and their public pronouncements: There also seems to be a crushing uniformity in regard to their privately held viewpoints.
The founders of Glimmer Train, two Portland sisters who created the literary journal with some software money, have been running it since 1994 – and now they’ve announced that the it will have its final issue in 2019. “They decided they wanted a journal with content as high in quality as any other, but also — and this is one of the areas that set them apart — they wanted it to be fun.”
‘I predict one day Amazon will fail. Amazon will go bankrupt’: Jeff Bezos makes surprise admission about Amazon’s life span Business Insider So that’s his justification for getting welfare from cities, that otherwise Amazon will die sooner?
Twelve philosophy books everyone should read: from FouCault, ImRich to Plato Oxford University Press Blog: “Every year the third Thursday in November marks World Philosophy Day, UNESCO’s collaborative “initiative towards building inclusive societies, tolerance and peace.” To celebrate, we’ve curated a reading list of historical texts by great philosophers that shaped the modern world and who had important things to say about the issues that we wrestle with today such as freedom, authority, equality, sexuality, and the meaning of life…”
Big Pharma Bankrolled Pro-Trump Group As Trump Pushed Pharma Tax Cut Capital & Main. David Sirota
“Tough on Crime” Trump Comes Out for Sentencing Reform American Conservative
Trump’s Defense Spending Is Out of Control, and Poised to Get Worse Rolling Stone. Matt Taibbi
As the Obama DOJ Concluded, Prosecution of Julian Assange for Publishing Documents Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom Intercept. Glenn Greenwald. Important. Greenwald makes clear that too many Democrats misguidedly support targeting Assange, for the role they think Wikileaks played in thwarting HRC’s installation in the position that she – and many of her enablers – believed was her due.
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With Fairfax shareholders voting next week on the merger with Nine, it’s a good time to consider how well the company’s journalism has weathered a
15 NOV 2018
We Should Be A Lot More Angry About The Demise Of FilmStruck
Why Feedback Ratings Make Things Worse, Not Better
Today’s understanding of feedback has reversed those terms. Positive ratings are a kind of holy grail on sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor, and negative reviews can sink a burgeoning small business or mom-and-pop restaurant. That shift has created a misunderstanding about how feedback works. The original structure of the loop’s information regulation has been lost. … Read More
