Category Archives: Writing
BOOK REVIEW: “Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene” / Animated Book Review / FightMediocrity ☮
READING: “My New Favorite Way to Read” / FightMediocrity ☮
BOOK READING AND DISCUSSION: “The End of Faith Sessions 1” / Waking Up with Sam Harris Podcast / 04.25.2016 ☮
https://soundcloud.com/samharrisorg/the-end-of-faith-sessions-1
Sam Harris Reads and Discusses the First Chapter of his August 2004 Book:
The End of Faith.
BILL MOYERS: “Bill Moyers: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics” ☮
On the eve of the New York primary, Bill Moyers sat down to talk with Rick Shenkman, the historian, editor and publisher of the indispensable website History News Network. Shenkman tells Bill that it’s the voters and their emotions, not the candidates and their ideas, that will determine the outcome of the election in November.
Shenkman’s latest book is ‘Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics.’
BOOKS: “Joshua Prager: Wisdom from Great Writers on Every Year of Life” / TED Talks ☮
As different as we humans are from one another, we all age along the same great sequence, and the shared patterns of our lives pass into the pages of the books we love. In this moving talk, journalist Joshua Prager explores the stages of life through quotations from Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, William Trevor and other great writers, set to visualizations by graphic designer Milton Glaser. “Books tell us who we’ve been, who we are, who we will be, too,” Prager says.
READING: “You Can Sleep in This Japanese Bookstore” / AJ+☮
CRITICAL THINKING: “The Shepherds and the Flock” / Christopher Hitchens ☮
LITERATURE: “What is Literature for?” / The School of Life ☮
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “‘Religious Freedom’ Bills Meant to Hurt LGBT Community” / RT America / Ed Schultz and Rev. Barry Lynn ☮
Governor Nathan Deal (R-Georgia) vetoed a Religious Freedom Restoration Act-style bill that would have allowed Georgia businesses to deny services to members of the LGBT community. The state faced possible boycotts from the entertainment industry. Rev. Barry Lynn, Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, joins ‘News With Ed’ to discuss this bill and similar RFRA ones sweeping the nation.
