Paris Review - Art of Fiction No. 226, Hilary Mantel Interview with the author.
(tags: fiction books hilary-mantel interview) There is no catastrophe so ghastly that America will reform its gun laws Tim Kreider’s essay from 2014 is still true, it seems.
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How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus - The Atlantic American identity politics and the attempt to curtail academic freedom with talk of triggers and microaggressions and all that jazz. “You might call this impulse vindictive protectiveness.” (Via Mefi, where the mods deleted a posting someone made linking to this, ( Read more... )

For American pundits, China isn’t a country. It’s a fantasyland. - The Washington Post “Whenever I want to be cheered up about the future of my adopted country, I turn to American pundits. The air here might be deadly, the water undrinkable, the Internet patchy and the culture strangled, but I can always be reassured that China is beating America ( Read more... )