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“If We Don’t Have Free Speech, Then We Just Don’t Have a Free Country” – The New Yorker
Letter from Trump’s Washington “If We Don’t Have Free Speech, Then We Just Don’t Have a Free Country” Donald Trump’s attempt to criminalize political expression is crossing a line that’s held since 1798. By Susan B. Glasser, February 12, 2026 During the 2024 campaign, after years of attacking the media as “enemies of the people,”…
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“Tengo Puerto Rico en Mi Corazon”: After Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Performance, Here are 10 Resources at Duke Libraries to Learn more about Puerto Rican History & Culture
Post by Roger Peña, Librarian for Latin American, Iberian, Caribbean and Latinx Studies Last Sunday, Over 127 million viewers tuned into the Super Bowl Halftime Show to see a performance by Puerto Rican-American artist, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, better known as “Bad Bunny.” Hot off winning six Grammy Awards a week earlier, including Album of…
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Ernest Hemingway in Toronto, Part I: Online Resources – The Hemingway Society
The Hemingway Society Search Ernest Hemingway in Toronto, Part I: Online Resources By Lisa Tyler If you are planning to attend the Hemingway Society Conference in Toronto in July, or just wish you were, you might find the suggested online resources below interesting. The topics covered include Hemingway’s early journalism, his Canadian network, and the…
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We Read Banned Books – YouTube
by ACLU Video source: https://www.ispot.tv/ad/5FoA/aclu-every-book-featuring-judy-blume-and-jason-reynolds See Also: Playlist•7 videos•1,079 views We Read Banned Books – Description from YouTube… Since 2021, dozens of states have moved to introduce and pass classroom censorship bills that restrict students and teachers from discussing race, gender, and sexual orientation in public schools. At the same time, politicians and school boards…
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Explore Black literary NYC with this map of 100 important spots – Literary Hub
Explore Black literary NYC with this map of 100 important spots. By James Folta, February 10, 2026 This year is the 100th anniversary of Black History Month, and the bookstore McNally Jackson put together a list of 100 places in New York’s five boroughs that were significant for Black literary culture. It’s a pretty comprehensive…
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DrWeb’s Domain: A Washington Post Investigation: I’m Opening My Research Vault – NotebookLLM
I have been pondering the Washington Post recent changes, major changes, 1/3 of entire newsroom laid off (fired). February 4, 2026. I consider my further work as an open-source investigation. This isn’t raw AI speculation; it is a curated environment where the AI is constrained strictly to the high-integrity sources I have selected, specifically to…
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Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight – The New Yorker
The Daily Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight By David Remnick, February 8, 2026 You’re reading The New Yorker’s daily newsletter, a guide to our top stories, featuring exclusive insights from our writers and editors. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. It’s truly impossible to keep up, isn’t it? Last week—after the Wall Street…
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The Radical Power of a Bookstore: On Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights – Literary Hub
The Radical Power of a Bookstore: On Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Gioia Woods Reflects on the Life of a Literary Icon, Via The University of Nevada Press By Gioia Woods, February 6, 2026 I discovered City Lights Bookstore in 1983. I was a high school sophomore in east Los Angeles on a campus so…
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Letters from an American – February 7, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
https://substack.com/session-attribution-frame Letters from an American, February 7, 2026 By Heather Cox Richardson, Feb 07, 2026 Yesterday two right-wing circuit judges signed off on the Trump administration’s new mass detention policy: the extraordinary assertion that vast numbers of noncitizens throughout the country can be arrested and held in detention centers without the right to release until…
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The Washington Post is gutting its books coverage – Literary Hub
The Washington Post is gutting its books coverage. By Brittany Allen, February 4, 2026 Earlier today, Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post laid off hundreds of its employees, in what one staffer called “an absolute bloodbath.” As The Guardian reported this morning, editor-in-chief Matt Murray told his masthead that the paper was due for a “strategic reset.”…
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The real reason why Jeff Bezos killed the Washington Post. – Slate
The Media Jeff Bezos Killed the Washington Post The billionaire wanted the Post to die, because a vigorous, well-resourced newspaper does not help his bottom line. By Alex Kirshner, Feb 05, 202611:07 AM Copy Link Share Comment Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to…
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We are not Nazis. – Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance We are not Nazis. Also: No Kings, No Dictators. By Joyce Vance, Feb 05, 2026 I wrote this piece, titled “Are We The Nazis Now?” back in October last year. There were so many awful things happening, mostly to immigrants, but by then, some Americans had started to protest their…
