Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die by Steven Nadler, reviewed by Jonathan Rée in Literary Review
The White House has been without dogs for four years – that’s changing with Joe Biden USA Today
Biden-Harris Transition – “The American people will determine who will serve as the next President of the United States. Votes are still being counted in several states around the country.
Evaluating the fake news problem at the scale of the information ecosystem. Science Advances 03 Apr 2020: Vol. 6, no. 14, eaay3539 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay3539
“Fake news,” broadly defined as false or misleading information masquerading as legitimate news, is frequently asserted to be pervasive online with serious consequences for democracy.
Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator by Leo Lowenthal and Norbert Giterman, reviewed by Charles H. Clavey in Boston Review.
Charlie Hebdo: free speech or provocation?
Terrible events in France – a teacher beheaded, stabbings of innocent bystanders, and the shooting of a Greek orthodox priest – are recent examples of a clash of cultural identity systems that remain stubbornly alien to each other. It appears that hopes for a cosmopolitan world in which cultures converse amicably and learn from each other are fast fading as angry populists and fundamentalists take centre stage.
Debt Collectors Will Soon Be Allowed To Reach You By Text Or On Facebook CBS