Seven Books of Fools & Sacred Folly
What makes a fool’s day happy? And what — if anything — makes us wise?
Learn MoreRCB Bookmarks, Mid-January, 2009
Links on culture, reading, and the web.
Learn MoreSo, Mrs. Palin, how does it feel to be a Problem?
W.E.B. DuBois has said, “being a problem is a strange experience…a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity…” Problems change, but race is still a problem. And […]
Learn MoreCivility on the Web (or, If you talk, be polite)
The New York Times explores calls for a Code of Conduct (like this from Jimmy Wales, or this from Tim O’Riley) on the web, as well as the motivations and secret lives of the Trolls Among Us; and Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, explains why A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy.
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