Progressive Book Club Up And Running
The Progressive Book Club is on YouTube, where they offer interviews with politically progressive authors.
Category: Book Business
Evaluating the Strategies of Liberal Books
Al Franken wrote about timely events, but didn’t have much vision beyond the next year or two in his material. Satanic Panic was about events in the 1980s, but it was describing a cultural phenomenon that dates back to the Salem witch trials, and far beyond that
Mark Twain On the Change In Books As One Ages
A change in the reading of a book is a change in the mind of the reader. Thoughts from Mark Twain on reading.
Where Are All The Golden Compass Atheists?
If reading The Golden Compass really has the power to transform people into transform teenagers into atheists, then how come there hasn’t been a dramatic increase in the number of young atheists in the time since The Golden Compass has been published? It’s been ten years since The Golden Compass was published, and in that time, millions of people have read The Golden Compass. Are there that many more atheists on Earth now than there were before?
Don’t Let Extremists Censor The Next Golden Compass
The Catholic League complains that The Golden Compass contains ideas that disagree with Catholic theology, as so ought not to be offered by Scholastic. It’s a bold reassertion of the idea that Catholics ought to be able to control what ideas even non-Catholics are exposed to. Fortunately, many Catholics are rejecting the Catholic League’s attempts to censor The Golden Compass. Honest thinkers don’t need censorship to protect them. Their minds are strong enough to distinguish worthwhile ideas from trash. The consensus seems to be that The Golden Compass contains a worthwhile presentation of ideas.
