Nicholas A. Christakis Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Nicholas A. Christakis

@JeffLonsdale @NateAFischer I use “banning” to also include acts of book burning by groups, petitions to remove books for sale at Amazon, & demands books be removed from a library. If there were an existing policy & the book was in violation, I can understand. How about this case: https://t.co/KUlM7RyAjQ

Nicholas A. Christakis

Such a ridiculous move inimical to the trade: “Booksellers for Censoring Books” The profound trauma occurred when the trade group dedicated to selling books sent out a book some of its members don’t like, “Irreversible Damage” by Abigail Shrier. https://www.wsj.com/articles/booksellers-for-censoring-books-11626389778

Nicholas A. Christakis

People who are trying to stop high school seniors from reading BELOVED by Toni Morrison are EXACTLY the sorts of people who, along with their high school-age children, SHOULD be reading the book. Plus, banning books is never a good look. (Details: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/youngkin-ad-features-mom-whose-son-was-terrified-by-toni-morrison-novel)

Nicholas A. Christakis

In my public health classes, I’ve long discussed the abuse of pregnant women in prisons, sometimes required to deliver a baby while shackled. It’s inhumane. This practice is often driven by a dehumanization of “the woman in the body” to quote Emily Martin. #Socy126 #soc190 https://t.co/FUIS0449Kg

Nicholas A. Christakis

@booksoftitans If it’s the only book I could keep? Probably either Homer’s Iliad, or the Last Days of Socrates.

Nicholas A. Christakis

Banning books (from libraries!) is never a good look. https://t.co/1T0yyBDdlS Judge orders immediate return of books: “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” “They Called Themselves the KKK: Birth of an American Terrorist Group,” & “Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen."

Nicholas A. Christakis

@RichardHanania My point is that I think the impetus to ban a book talking about (and featuring images of) oral sex would have been lower if it had been showing a straight couple. My sense is that having books about sex in a high school library is helpful, not harmful, to a healthy life.

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Nicholas A. Christakis

'"I think it’s easy to say, 'Why would you listen to some stranger on the internet tell you where to put your money?'" said Nicholas Christakis, a Yale University sociologist and physician who wrote "Connected," a seminal book on the scientific underpinnings of online influence.'