The New Dark Age The Trump administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself. By Adam Serwer I couldn’t think of a better title for this post than the one on the article whose link I’ve attached above. Obviously, I highly recommend this article from The Atlantic. Reading it puts just puts another exclamation mark…
I try not to write much about politics here because it is so pervasive everywhere else these days. But as a writer who works seven days a week in my own library, it doesn’t sit well with my conscience to remain silent in these current shocking days of global turmoil created by a U.S. President…
As President Trump seeks to purge the U.S. of “wokeness”, his administration has flagged hundreds of words that government documents and website are to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents by the New York Times. This purging is already apparent on hundreds of federal government website. Read this article: These Words…
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they…
“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” Justice Louis Brandeis