Thomas Chatterton Williams Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Speaking of book recs, for those who've read or will read White Fragility, I'd also recommend picking up a copy of @glukianoff and @JonHaidt's The Coddling of the American Mind. I reviewed it when it came out and have thought about it ever since: https://t.co/dzmTcmk2E1

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@Mord_Fiddle just asked him and he can't give just one :) He says: Either Social Construction of Reality by Peter Berger or The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills. Or Samuel Smiles’s Self Help. Or Consciousness and Society by H. Stuart Hughes

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@michael_epps the point he always makes is that you only get one shot to get AGI correct, which seems true

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Happy (belated) pub day to @AlexanderMaksik, whose brilliant new novel The long Corner came out yesterday and received this wonderful review today: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/books/review/alexander-maksik-long-corner.html

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Insightful interview with my dear friend @katimarton, author of The Chancellor and the chair of the new pro-democracy group Action for Democracy: https://houseofbeautifulbusiness.com/read/democracy-is-a-delicate-flower

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I wrote about @rooseveltmontas's excellent book Rescuing Socrates, a plea to step away from the narrow, hyper-contemporary trap of identity and to educate non-white students as though they are more than mere interest groups or victims of Western society: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/ideas-vs-identity-liberal-arts-montas-padilla/621241/

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So much for Thomas Friedman's argument in the Lexus and the Olive Tree that no two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's...

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Left @HopeCollege today inspired after speaking with students and faculty about constructive debate, the pressures of social media, tolerance of opposing views, freedom of expression, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” and René Girard’s notion of mimetic desire and the scapegoat 🙏🏽 https://t.co/czw4bEkwSb

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Left @HopeCollege today inspired after speaking with students and faculty about constructive debate, the pressures of social media, tolerance of opposing views, freedom of expression, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” and René Girard’s notion of mimetic desire and the scapegoat 🙏🏽 https://t.co/czw4bEkwSb

Thomas Chatterton Williams

“No one man should have all that power”