Worth Reading July 2022

• Melissa Gira Grant on stochastic terrorism for The New Republic.

• Anthony Pappalardo on trans women in skateboarding.

• To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Apple II, Benj Edwards interviewed Steve Wozniak.

• Liza Featherstone on working class suffragettes for Jacobin.

Books Read In 2016

1. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
2. A People's History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story by Diana Butler Bass
3. The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Susan Wise Bauer
4. The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade by Susan Wise Bauer
5. Heavy Metal Music In Britain by Gerd Bayer
6. The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg
7. The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy: Practical Tips for Staying Safe Online by Violet Blue
8. Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano
9. Nazi Literature In The Americas by Roberto Bolano
10. The Unknown University by Roberto Bolano
11. The Secret History of Science Fiction by T.C. Boyle
12. The Sorcerer's Daughter: The Defenders of Shannara by Terry Brooks
13. Letters, 1941-1985 by Italo Calvino
14. Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History Of The Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
15. Lion's Pride: The Turbulent History of New Japan Pro Wrestling by Chris Charlton
16. X-Men: Days Of Future Past by Chris Claremont
17. Disgrace: A Novel by J.M. Coetzee
18. Panther In The Hive by Olivia A. Cole
19. Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous by Gabriella Coleman
20. The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History and How We Can Fight Back by Alan Collinge
21. Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America by Matthew J. Costello
22. Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica by Kevin Courrier
23. Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems by Mahmoud Darwish
24. Star Trek Archives: The Best Of Peter David
25. Women In Class Struggle by Marlene Dixon
26. Mystery Science Storybook: Bedtime Tales Based on the Worst Movies Ever by Sugar Ray Dodge
27. The Life Engineered by JF Dubeau
28. Husker Du: The Story Of The Noise-Pop Pioneers Who Launched Modern Rock by Andrew Earles
29. On Literature by Umberto Eco
30. Selected Essays, Poems, and Other Writings by George Eliot
31. Picture Windows: How The Suburbs Happened by Elizabeth Ewen
32. False Choices: The Faux Feminism Of Hilary Rodham Clinton by Liza Featherstone
33. Welcome To Night Vale: A Novel by Joseph Fink
34. The Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime by Michael Fournier
35. Nirvana's In Utero by Gillian Gaar
36. Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? by Neil Gaiman
37. The Game of Our Lives: The English Premier League and the Making of Modern Britain by David Goldblatt
38. Imagine: Living In A Socialist USA by Frances Goldin
39. Anxiety: A Short History by Allan V. Horwitz
40. Queen Of Chaos: The Misadventures Of Hillary Clinton by Diana Johnstone
41. The Walking Dead Volume One by Robert Kirkman
42. The Walking Dead Volume Two by Robert Kirkman
43. Capitalism: A Short History by Jurgen Kocka
44. Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It by Gina Kolata
45. State & Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
46. Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller
47. Milton and the Post-Secular Present: Ethics, Politics, Terrorism by Feisal Mohamed
48. All Star Superman by Grant Morrison
49. Alice Munro's Best: Selected Stories by Alice Munro
50. Batman & Green Arrow: The Poison Tomorrow by Dennis O'Neil
51. The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized, History by John Ortved
52. Game Boy World: 1989: A History of Nintendo Game Boy, Volume One by Jeremy Parish
53. The Apology by Plato
54. The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin by Corey Rubin
55. Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance by Goerge Saliba
56. The Assasination Complex: Inside The Government's Secret Drone Warface Program by Jeremy Scahill
57. Batgirl 2012 Annual by Gail Simone
58. Lumberjanes Volume One by Noelle Stevenson
59. Lumberjanes Volume Two by Noelle Stevenson
60. The ABCs Of Socialism by Bhaskar Sunkara
61. The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia by Patrick Thorpe
62. The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010 by Selina Todd
63. The Monsters Of Education Technology by Audrey Watters
64. Lumberjanes Volume Three by Shannon Watters
65. Lumberjanes Volume Four by Shannon Watters
66. Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
67. Race Matters by Cornell West
68. Crisis On Infinite Earths by Marv Wolfman
69. A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

Worth Reading: Spring Break Edition

I spent a lot of time over spring break clearing out bookmarks and saved articles from Instapaper. Normally I post this list when I get to ten, but here are twenty articles worth reading: 

• The New York Times on a swatter that finally got caught after years of swatting. 
• A podcast about the app Yik Yak, which is totally dead near me but has fascinating, good and bad, uses elsewhere. 
• Some of the family members of Sandy Hook victims have been terrorized by the solipsistic, egomaniac, "Truther" movement. 
• This interview with Arsene Wenger is fascinating. 
• I am sharing these writing tips with my students this semester. 
• Roqayah Chamseddine has become one of the most important voices in my daily social media life on a variety of issues, but particularly the connection between mainstream feminism and the right wing ideals of Hilary Clinton and other neoliberals. Over two essays, Rejecting Bourgeois Feminism, and The Problem With Bourgeois Feminist Defenses of Hilary Clinton she strongly criticizes "white feminists" for their allegiance to destructive liberal ideas. I used to have a lot of respect for at least one of the people Chamseddine mentions and it is sad to see, and they certainly aren't the only ones, how so many have fallen to liberalism* and its destructive ideas of war mongering, union bashing, and shilling for Wall Street. *Plus attacking women for being "crazy," and "hysterical" as seen in the linked articles. How liberal of them. 
• I always love interviews with Junot Diaz and this one is no exception. 
• 51 years after his assassination, Jacobin looks at the legacy of Malcolm X. I teach his essay Coming To An Awareness of Language every semester and it is always one of the most popular with students. 
• An excerpt from Liza Featherstone's upcoming book about the faux feminism of Hilary Clinton.
• Nicole M. Aschoff on a feminism without capitalism. 
• FAIR's excellent tribute to Ben Bagdikian. Reading his book The Media Monopoly as a teenager absolutely changed the direction of my life; I will be forever grateful to him. 
• Black Agenda Report on Miriam Makeba. 
• Liliana Segura on Hilary Clinton's indefensible stance on the death penalty. Bernie Sanders' support of drones is not much better. 
• On the "goddamned exploitative farce" that is academic publishing. 
• Evan Narcisse on the politics of Black Panther. 
• Grant Wahl on the incredible story of Leicester City.