Jerry Seinfeld is weirdly on a tear about the PC police being the death of comedy. Here are Emily Nussbaum of the New Yorker and Linda Holmes of NPR making me happy on Twitter with their rebuttals. Stacia Brown on the racial prism, saying some super true truths about New Haven, CT, where I lived for a few months. On teaching diverse literature. A round-up of reactions to the utter madness of Rachel Dolezal, of which my favorite is the Guardian article by Meredith Talusan. Plus one more from Jamilah Lemieux. For real, though, authors: Don’t respond to negative reviews…
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The Lucifer Effect, Philip Zimbardo
Published 6 Apr 2008
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Gin Jenny
Ick. Edit to add: Edit to add: Yes, ick. That’s all I have to say about this book. It creeped me out and I was loath to finish it but I finished it anyway because I was stuck in the airport and I had nothing else to read except for The Ape Who Guards the Balance, which I had already finished, Jenna Starborn, ditto, and my Norton Anthology of American Literature. It was all about how people with power over other people become power-mad and psychologically abusive. It was creepy. The Stanford Prison Experiment was creepy, creepy, creepy, in addition…
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