NYTIMES (Tara Isabella Burton) - How a ’70s Improv Book Became Silicon Valley’s Required Reading
It can be useful to see reality as malleable.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Theodore Dalrymple) - Cofnas, Arday, and the Ever-Expanding ‘Discrimination’ Definition
A teacher of English told me in his class more than sixty years ago that his job was to teach discrimination: between the meritorious and the meretricious, the beautiful and the ugly, the good and the bad. If the result of his teaching was that we emerged able to discriminate, as discriminating persons, he would […] The post Cofnas, Arday, and the Ever-Expanding ‘Discrimination’ Definition appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Cofnas, Arday, and the Ever-Expanding ‘Discrimination’ Definition The terms of bureaucratic discipline drift ever further from the actual usages of the English language. A teacher of English told me in his class more than sixty years ago that his job was to teach discrimination: between the meritorious and the meretricious, the beautiful and the ugly, the good and the bad. If the result of his teaching was that we emerged able to discriminate, as discriminating persons, he would have succeeded. I suppose that it would now be as impossible to return the word discrimination to the sense in which my teacher (now long dead)…Open
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Steven Tucker) - What’s the Point of Reading? Just Reading.
Great works of literature are not self-help books. The post What’s the Point of Reading? Just Reading. appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag What’s the Point of Reading? Just Reading. Great works of literature are not self-help books. TakiMag Credit: Reinhold Leitner When, as a young man, I applied to be an English teacher, I recall being asked during interviews why it was so vital to interest my (hypothetical) charges in literature. I felt obliged to respond with what I intuited were the expected answers: “To teach them human empathy via the medium of prose,” or some such pablum. But did I really believe this? Personally, the only reason I have ever read books is because I enjoy reading books. De gustibus non disputandum est; matters…Open
NYTIMES (Melissa Kirsch) - Quit Lit
There are good reasons to abandon books we’re not enjoying, but our attenuated attention might lead us to tap out too early.
AI:The New York Times is pushing a narrative regarding "quit lit," suggesting that readers are abandoning books prematurely due to declining attention spans rather than exercising personal choice. This cultural critique attempts to frame the act of stopping an unenjoyable book as a failure of perseverance or a symptom of modern distraction, essentially acting as another attempt by the intellectual elite to dictate how individuals should consume culture and manage their time.Open
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Theodore Dalrymple) - On the Death and Consolations of Reading
Looking for my key amid the shrubbery, I found a fossil instead. The post On the Death and Consolations of Reading appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag On the Death and Consolations of Reading Looking for my key amid the shrubbery, I found a fossil instead. TakiMag Slight setbacks may have disproportionate effects upon one’s mood, and despair may be induced by trivia. For example, the other day I lost the key to my post-box somewhere between the latter and the house, 500 yards away. The track is somewhat overgrown, and despite several prolonged searches, I could not find the key. Even on the very small scale of my own life, this was no tragedy, but the inconvenience of it—having to buy and install a new post-box—nevertheless made me wonder whether it (that is to…Open
NYTIMES (Bret Stephens) - I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I.
It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.
AMERICANTHINKER - Book bans: they're everywhere!
By Mike McDaniel The battle for age-appropriate literature in schools is important and never-ending.
BITCHUTE - The IMA/SolutionsWatch Panel on Books That Inspire
So, inspired by the recent Corbett Report exploration of the real fate of The Library of Alexandria and the subsequent report on how They Don't Want You To Read, you've decided to pick up a book? Great! Need a book suggestion for your foray into the wide world of books? Then you've come to the right place! Specifically, on this special edition of the #SolutionsWatch/IMA roundtable, the IMA panel (along with special guest Tim Lacy) recommend a slew of books to keep even the most inveterate reader busy for the foreseeable future. Happy reading! SHOW NOTES AND COMMENTS: https://corbettreport.com/books-that-inspire/ ARE YOU LOOKING FOR SHOW NOTES WITH LINKS TO ALL OF THE ARTICLES, VIDEOS AND WEBSITES MENTIONED? HOW ABOUT COMMENTS? THEY’RE AT…
AMERICANTHINKER - Gad Saad On Good Sense
American Thinker By John Dale Dunn In his three most recent books, Saad takes aim at the fashionable ideas undermining reason, merit, happiness, and the West’s instinct for survival.
AMERICANTHINKER - Principles And Perseverance In Roger Scruton
Photo Credit:Francis Orpen Morris, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Lars Møller British conservatism in the shadow of Blair’s revolution: the enduring witness of Sir Roger Scruton and The Salisbury Review.