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Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair

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Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph

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The End of October by Lawrence Wright

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800 million viruses were deposited every day on every single meter of the earth’s surface. Most of these viruses preyed on bacteria, not humans. The total number of viruses on the planet was estimated to be a hundred million times more than ...more

Surviving Autocracy

by Masha Gessen

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“The tricky thing about living in a society that allows you freedom is that everyone else has it too. Some people can’t handle that. They can’t accept their neighbor making a different choice than they did. That’s the tricky part, letting someone else have the freedom to choose. A choice isn’t really a choice if there is only one option.”
― A.C. Cobble, Benjamin Ashwood

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“Trump’s word piles fill public space with static, the way pollutants in an industrial city can saturate the air, making it toxic and creating a state of constant haze. The haze can be so dense that objects become visible only up close, but never in their entirety and never really in focus.”
― Masha Gessen, Surviving Autocracy

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“Reporter Mary Louise Kelly went on the air to explain why she chose not to use the word in her story on Trump’s post-inauguration appearance at the CIA headquarters. She said that she checked the definition in the Oxford English Dictionary. “A false statement made with intent to deceive,” she said. “Intent being the key word there. Without the ability to peer into Donald Trump’s head, I can’t tell you what his intent was. I can tell you what he said and how that squares, or doesn’t, with facts.”
― Masha Gessen, Surviving Autocracy

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― Masha Gessen, Surviving Autocracy

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“The pedantic insistence on only ever reporting empirically proven facts, and staying away from facts for which only logical, intellectual evidence can be summoned, creates the blurry style of American journalism. By using noncommittal statements, the blurry style in effect aids the Trumpian project of neutralizing the most important of media rights—the public’s right to know. Anodyne headlines and noncommittal writing become an automatic way of normalizing Trump, to be sure, but also a way of reassuring journalists and editors that they can continue to work in the way they were taught.”
― Masha Gessen, Surviving Autocracy

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