- Fascinating piece about a new book Slouch, about the curious preoccupation with posture, at least in America;
- Short items about Trump’s dumb attorneys; Christian rallies against the LGBTQs; why Trump’s “Christian Visibility Day” illustrates Christians’ persecution complex; and that traffic to right-wing sites is collapsing.
Here’s the second item I’ve seen or heard in the past month about a new book called Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America, by Beth Linker, published by Princeton University Press just last Tuesday. (The first was an interview on KQED’s Form, Beth Linker’s Book ‘Slouch’ Recounts History of ‘Posture Panic’, which I heard as broadcast. You can listen to it, but there’s no transcript.)
The New Yorker, Rebecca Mead, 8 Apr 2024: The Truth Behind the Slouching Epidemic, subtitled “From the onset of the twentieth century, poor posture has been associated with poverty, bad health, and even civilizational decadence. But does the real problem lie elsewhere?”