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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Just finished The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker, in which the author puts forward some excellent arguments for why it's a mistake and counter-productive to cling to ideas long discarded by science in an attempt to create a more just world.

Read this 8-ish years ago. A good read.

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Also finished A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr., the MobileRead Book Club's November selection, and I'm ready for the discussion that begins on the 20th.

Like it. Plan to re-read just before the discussion begins.

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Just finished reading Noam Chomsky's book on how the power-that-be use propaganda to control populations, Media Control, Second Edition. Powerful and thought-provoking. 3½ out of 5 stars.

Chomsky is a hit-and-miss author for me, but media analysis is his strength. His classic "Manufacturing Consent" still sits on my shelf. I might have to read this one. OTOH, it might be re-hash.

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Currently reading:
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré.

Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich