In his The New York Times review of the book (which focuses on elite universities) Thomas Chatterton Williams wrote: If we are going to beat back the regressive populism, mendacity and hyperpolarization in which we are currently mired, we are going to need an educated citizenry fluent in a wise and universal liberalism. On, 287 customers gave it a composite rating of 4.7 out of 5. Cornel West co-authored a positive blurb for The Coddling of the American Mind. Prospects for establishing compassionate policies supported by super-majorities of the American people will fade. Until activists stop being so defensive and learn to be more self-critical, they’ll continue to undermine massive popular action. Condescending authoritarianism across the political spectrum sows division. Many conservatives also violate their own principles. But Weigel’s review illustrates the problem Lukianoff and Haidt document: leftists often violate liberal principles. Numerous well-credentialed pundits lauded the essay for having “eviscerated” and “systematically demolished” the book. By Wade Lee Hudson Google’s top result for reviews of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt is Moira Weigel’s scathing criticism published by The Guardian.
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As a liberal person, I never quite understood what was so bad about communist China. My preconceived notions of communism were frankly tromped upon by this memoir. From her mother who was part of the communist revolution to herself who ended up an ex-patriot in Britain. Starting with her grandmother who had bound feet and was essentially sold by her family as a concubine, Change moves up through the drastic changes in China. Chang was extremely careful to verify the facts of the historical events surrounding her family’s various issues. It has been a very long time since I’ve learned so much from a memoir. My history BA taught me to favor first-person accounts over academic ramblings, so a memoir of communist China from a woman’s perspective was frankly ideal. So when Meghan blogged about this memoir, I was immediately intrigued. Mixing extensive historical facts with intensely personal remembrances, Jung Chang presents a vivid portrait of real life in China.Īs an American, I was raised being told communism is bad, but not particularly taught much about it. In this memoir, Jung Chang recounts the lives of herself, her mother, and her grandmother growing up in pre-communist, revolutionary, and communist China. “We’re just taking over when today’s medicine gives up on a patient. “We see it as an extension of emergency medicine,” More says. Cryonics is a way to bridge the gap between today’s medicine and tomorrow’s. Those who die today could be cured tomorrow. The general premise is simple: medicine is continually getting better. “I want to keep living and enjoying and producing.”Ĭryopreservation is a darling of the futurist community. “I figure the future is a pretty decent place to be, so I want to be there,” he says. More himself has been a member since 1986, and has decided to opt for neuropreservation – just deep freezing the brain – over whole body preservation. More is now the President and Chief Executive officer of Alcor, one of the world’s largest cryonics companies. “They were getting Cryonics magazine,” he says, “and they asked me about it to see how futuristic I was. He didn’t think much about it until years later, when he started hanging out with friends who held meetings about futurism. In 1972 Max More saw a children’s science fiction television show called Time Slip that featured characters being frozen in ice. None of that worked (and she's still single), but it allowed Tiffany to imagine a place for herself where she could do something she loved for a living: comedy. Or at least she could make enough money-as the paid school mascot and in-demand Bar Mitzvah hype woman-to get her hair and nails done, so then she might get a boyfriend. If she could do that, then her classmates would let her copy their homework, the other foster kids she lived with wouldn't beat her up, and she might even get a boyfriend. Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles, Tiffany learned to survive by making people laugh. Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!įrom stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself. The Coven is the first book in the adult paranormal romance series called Coven of Bones by author Harper L. If the ghosts of Hollow’s Groves’ victims don’t kill them first. Thirteen promising students destined to change the world. No one talks about the bloody massacre that forced it to close decades prior, only the opportunity it can afford to those fortunate enough to attend.īecause for the first time in fifty years, the Coven will open its wards to the Thirteen. The only animosity I face comes from the beautiful and infuriating Headmaster, Alaric Grayson Thorne, a man who despises me just as much as I loathe him and everything he stands for.īut that doesn’t mean secrets don’t threaten to tear the school in two. No condemnation for the blood that flows through my veins. My duty forces me to the secret town of Crystal Hollow and the prestigious Hollow’s Grove University-where the best and brightest of my kind learn to practice their magic free from human judgment. Raised to be my father’s weapon against the Coven that took away his sister and his birthright, I would do anything to protect my younger brother from suffering the same fate. 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She and her equally precocious younger siblings Branwell, Emily and Anne, had been producing “little books” since Charlotte was 11. Jane Eyre was Brontë’s first published novel, but not her first work of fiction. And they can seek to express them, with care and accuracy, in language. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!” Jane Eyre declares to Rochester.Īnyone, these books assure us, however little else they may have, can hold on to the integrity of their feelings. They are not beautiful or rich (typically they must work to support themselves), yet they assert their right to a beautiful and rich interior life. Moreover, Brontë doesn’t give the impression that the eventual resolutions her heroines achieve are easily won, necessarily worth the sacrifice, or “universally acknowledged”.Īs biographer and scholar Juliet Barker has noted,Īll Charlotte’s heroines were orphans. The answers to such questions are not foreshadowed, and, scandalously for many of her first readers, they privilege principles of self-knowledge and self-expression over conventional Christian moralism. Sent to live with an offbeat foster family and their "dooking" ferrets, Iris must find a way to take care of the animals back at the farm, even if it means confronting Aunt Sue. Things come to a head when Iris sets two young goats free to save them from slaughter, and an enraged Aunt Sue orders her brutish son, Book, to beat Iris senseless - a horrific act that lands Book and his mother in jail. Iris, a vegetarian and animal lover, immediately clashes with Aunt Sue, who mistreats the livestock, spends Iris’s small inheritance, and thinks nothing of striking Iris for the smallest offense. A gripping portrait of a teen’s struggles through grief and abuse - and the miraculous power of animals to heal us.Īfter her veterinarian dad dies, sixteen-year-old Iris Wight must leave her beloved Maine to live on a North Carolina farm with her hardbitten aunt and a cousin she barely knows. The conservative advice from the panel reflected the mood of biotech leaders at the conference. “It’s now back to the basics,” said Judith Li, a partner at Lilly Asia Ventures. “Companies don’t die from dilution, they die because they run out of cash,” added Steve Gillis, managing director at Arch Venture Partners.Ĭompanies should also consider options like partnerships and early mergers or acquisitions, said Beam.ĬEOs need to be more disciplined about deciding which programs to pursue, generating data, and showing how their potential product or therapy solves a problem, said panelists. RELATED: Report highlights growth of life sciences sector in Seattle, buoyed by NIH funding “You’re just in for more pain later on if you delay it now and keep kind of bridging,” said Chen. Frazier Life Sciences vice president Anna Chen advised going for the larger round. The XBI biotech index is up slightly since the Seagen acquisition announcement, but still about 50% down from an all-time high in February 2021.īiotech leaders seeking cash are asking whether they should do a bridge round of financing from insiders or raise a larger down round at a low valuation, said panelists. After reaching record highs during 20, venture capital funding for life sciences funding is now closer to pre-pandemic levels, and the IPO market has chilled.Īt the same time, the long-anticipated upswing in merger and acquisition deals is starting to happen, led by the $43 billion planned purchase of Seattle-area biopharma company Seagen by Pfizer. Later published as part of Osho Books on CD-ROM. judging by 22 chapters) notes Read this book as PDF or create a free account at to read the book online. This series of discourses is devoted entirely to questions from seekers, and in his responses Osho gives glimpses of the vast joy to be found when life is embraced fully. Where most orthodox religions are anti life, Krishna's revolutionary insight is that a really religious life is one that is enjoyed and embraced fully. The Indian mystic Krishna lived many centuries ago, yet in him Osho sees a man far ahead of his time, whose time, even now, is still to come. Osho's first "official" sannyasins, according to info supplied by Ma Dharm Jyoti, as posted on the website of Sw Satrakshita:įront L to R: Ma Yoga Laxmi, Ma Dharm Jyoti, Ma Yoga Prem, two unknown kids, Ma Yoga Bhagwati, Ma Yoga Samadhiīehind L to R: four unknown, Sw Anand Murti, Ma Krishna Karuna, Sw Chaitanya Bharti, Ma Anand Madhu, Sw Yoga Chinmaya, Sw Govind Siddharth |