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So, what are you reading?
I'm still on Herzog's Citizen Knowledge. I can't say I care much for the discussions of actual events, but there are a lot of interesting references, and its position is very clearly written.
I'm also reading papers found in New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech, edited by J.P. Messina (also open access). Currently, Cohen and Cohen's The Possibility and Defensibility of Nonstate "Censorship." This collection at least seems much more self-aware of censorship issues raised in recent times.
I'm on The Screwtape Letters by Lewis, and just started Violence Unveiled by Gil Bailie.
The latter is so far a staggeringly impressive work - perhaps the most important book I've ever read if it continues to impress as it has in the first third. It's an in-depth discussion of the Girardian scapegoating mechanism, how the passion of Christ turned that mechanism on it's head, and how many of our modern problems boil down to the inability to differentiate between scared violence and profane violence.
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