Author Archives: Mark R. Kelly

More on Bookstores

Posted on Sunday 17 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Quick post for today. Here’s an item in today’s paper about Barnes & Noble, which makes some points similar to my discussion here on the 11th. NYT, Elizabeth A. Harris, posted 15 April 2022, in print today: How Barnes & … Continue reading →

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LQCs: Next Steps on Climate Change

Posted on Saturday 16 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Two or three major items to cover, from this past week, but for today just this one, apropos my review of the David Wallace-Wells book.

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LQCs: Stories of Religion and History and Why We Tell Them

Posted on Friday 15 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly
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LQCs: Fox and CNN, War Against Teachers and Gays, Whether Information Will Out

Posted on Thursday 14 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

A few political links today.

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David Wallace-Wells, THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH, post 2

Posted on Wednesday 13 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Resuming my summary outline from yesterday’s post.

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David Wallace-Wells, THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH, post 1

Posted on Tuesday 12 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Opening lines: It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn’t happening at all, and comes to us bundled with several others … Continue reading →

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How I Use Bookstores, Past and Present

Posted on Monday 11 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Slate, Jeff Deutsch, 9 April 2022: What Kind of Bookstore Browser Are You?, subtitled “We booksellers have seen it all.”

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LQCs: Child Informants and Cycles of Progress and Tyranny

Posted on Sunday 10 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

NYT, front page article today, posted yesterday 9 Apr 2022: Spurred by Putin, Russians Turn on One Another Over the War, subtitled, “Citizens are denouncing one another, illustrating how the war is feeding paranoia and polarization in Russian society.”

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Projection and Disgust

Posted on Saturday 9 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

More on the theme of, why now? Some of the reasons are eternal; that certain themes seem to be more apparent currently may just be random variation in the news of the day. (I saw a comment somewhere about the … Continue reading →

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Globalization, Wokeness, and Trek

Posted on Friday 8 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

New York Times, David Brooks, 8 April 2022: Globalization Is Over. The Global Culture Wars Have Begun.

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