1) The Foot Soldier of Birmingham (Podcast) http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/14-the-foot-soldier-of-birmingham
Malcolm Gladwell delivers a nuanced and entertaining take on a famous Civil Rights statue. Sometimes heroes are people just standing around. Sometimes villains are, well....people just standing around.2) NO FUTURE IN QUEENS: Attending the “Theorizing the Web” conference… https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/08/no-future-in-queens
Current Affairs is a great new magazine. All the writing I have read is grounded, insightful and actually laugh out loud funny. Especially this Amber A'Lee Frost.3) Losing It in the Anti-Dieting Age. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/magazine/weight-watchers-oprah-losing-it-in-the-anti-dieting-age.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine
Wow, I loved this piece. A short corporate history of the Weight Watchers company paired with the authors personal weight loss and diet struggles. Taffy Brodesser-Anker dances around an argument I think we need more of: maybe losing weight is impossible. Or at the very least we have no idea what we are doing.
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