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[ionelv]

This American Life Ep 771 about parents dealing with mass shootings is very powerful. 

Interesting opeds: Mr Brooks tries some sleight of hand the day before the Jan 6 committee public hearings begin, Democrat electorate left turn, What comes after the religious right, Ezra Klein's interview with Thomas Piketty. 

Found out by accident about The Forever War sci-fi novels. Pew shared some very interesting American demographic trends re: race relations and liberalism growth.

Way back in 1969, Chretien issued a controversial white paper about major changes to the Indian Act. The response was swift.

Apparently, Sam Francis was a high-caliber intellectual on the US far right (oxymoron?).

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Apparently, Tim Snyder (historian on Eastern Europe) wrote an interesting book called On Tyranny (https://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Twenty-Lessons-Twentieth-Century/dp/0804190119/).

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Chicago Tribune's (https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/ct-review-on-tyranny-by-timothy-snyder-20170227-story.html), Guardian's (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/08/on-tyranny-timothy-snyder-review-trump-twenty-lessons-democracy) and Stephen Jones' (https://stephenjones.blog/2022/03/11/snyder-on-tyranny/) reviews of Snyder's On Tyranny.