Damon Linker Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@MatthewSitman @cwellmon @SamAdlerBell From Garrison Keillor's NYTBR review of 'American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville,' by Bernard-Henri Lévy https://t.co/SZlbqkq8Qm

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@EsotericCD I don't know if it's old enough to be considered a "classic," but I give my strongest recommendation to JM Coetzee's DISGRACE.

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Martin Luther had 95 Theses. I have merely 6 — about the imminent end of constitutionally guaranteed abortion rights for women. https://t.co/U4XGwKX8pM

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@NGrossman81 She’s playing on the same level here as Norman Podhoretz after 9/11 calling the War on Terror “World War IV.”

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This is a great post. It goes together well with one of my favorite books of the past decade: The World Beyond Your Head by Matthew Crawford, which I reviewed here: https://t.co/J02F73pMMl https://t.co/jbNzMXoixl

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This is a really incredible essay. It was my "highlight of the week" at the end of the "Beg to Differ" podcast last week. Highly recommended. https://t.co/OLhPEcwk1P

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Martin Luther had 95 Theses. I have merely 6 — about the imminent end of constitutionally guaranteed abortion rights for women. https://t.co/U4XGwKX8pM

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@glukianoff All in the running: "Like a Rolling Stone," Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited "Five Years," David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust ATSFM "Thunder Road," Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run "Where the Streets Have No Name," U2, The Joshua Tree

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“It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.” ― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

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@olivertraldi As Plato's Socrates points out on more than one occasion: The administering of medicine can sometimes be painful, but if it contributes to healing, it's reasonable to welcome it regardless of the suffering. (Sorry you had to endure it, though.)