Thought Provoking Reads
Provocative and interesting articles from around the web.
Collection by Charles Baldwin
mentalfloss.atavist.com
The Photographer Who Captured America’s Dark Side
9 min · · By documenting the little things, Robert Frank changed an entire nation’s image of itself. · Shared by 31, including Charles Baldwin, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The Intercept
The Problem at Fox News Is Not Just Tucker Carlson — It’s the Murdoch Family Who Owns and Controls the…
3 min · · It’s not enough to criticize the racist anchors on Fox News. The Murdoch family is responsible for what happens there. Let’s talk about them. · Shared by 7, including Charles Baldwin
Aeon+Psyche
The lessons of Nissho Inoue and his cell of zen terrorists
13+ min · · Master Nissho Inoue and his band of assassins teach some uncomfortable truths about terrorism, for those who will hear · Shared by 22, including Charles Baldwin
The New Republic
The Myth of the Welfare Queen
11+ min · · The right turned Linda Taylor into a bogeyman. But her real life was much more complicated. · Shared by 14, including Mkay, Charles Baldwin
Salon
When Philip K. Dick turned to Christianity
4 min · · After a terrifying vision the novelist turned to the Episcopal Church. Soon after he became a countercultural hero · Shared by 12, including MIT Press, Charles Baldwin
The New Republic
The Dangerous Lies We Tell About America's Founding
5 min · · No, the American Revolution didn't begin with the "shot heard round the world." The facts matter. · Shared by 7, including Charles Baldwin
Foreign Policy
10 Murders, 3 Nazis, and Germany’s Moment of Reckoning
20+ min · · German authorities looked the other way as a right-wing terrorist cell went on a seven-year killing spree. Now they won’t look in the mirror. · Shared by 8, including Charles Baldwin
CJR
Faceplant
8 min · · A tech giant’s culpability to the international community · Shared by 11, including Charles Baldwin, Mathew Ingram
The New Republic
#ETTU?
20+ min · · Notes on Cancel Culture · Shared by 17, including Howard Getson, Charles Baldwin
Poynter
Good editors must be thoughtful when showing readers hard truths, like photos of dead bodies
4 min · · Journalists sometimes find themselves in the position of showing their audience a truth they would prefer not to see. That is the spot the Associated Press found itself this week, when the wire… · Shared by 13, including Charles Baldwin, Mathew Ingram
nature
James Lovelock at 100: the Gaia saga continues
5 min · · Tim Radford reassesses the independent scientist’s groundbreaking body of writing. · Shared by 12, including Charles Baldwin
nature
Aquifer systems extending far offshore on the U.S. Atlantic margin
20+ min · · Shared by 4, including Charles Baldwin
Aeon+Psyche
A radical legal ideology nurtured our era of economic inequality
5 min · · The law and economics movement clothes a particular political and moral vision as a supposedly neutral social science · Shared by 17, including Bjorn Larsen, Charles Baldwin
Foreign Policy
Facebook’s New Currency Has Big Claims and Bad Ideas
6 min · · Libra is an ideological project, not a practical one. · Shared by 20, including Charles Baldwin, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷, Loughlin O'Nolan
The New Statesman
Why political journalism keeps getting it wrong
15+ min · · When I started at the New Statesman in December 2010, we were six months into Britain’s first experience of coalition government since the 1940s, a surprisingly strong alliance between David Cameron’s… · Shared by 26, including Florian Jungnikl-Gossy 🦋, Mathew Ingram, Charles Baldwin, Helen Lewis, Martin Stabe
The New Yorker
The Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration Camps
4 min · · The debate over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s use of the term “concentration camp” is not about language or facts. It is about how we perceive history, ourselves, and ourselves in history. · Shared by 51, including luis antónio santos, Jane, Carly, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Charles Baldwin, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr