Finally started watching the latest season of SPN.  I think it's hilarious that Dean, as [personal profile] justabi said a long time ago, Tiny spoilers for first two eps of season )
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Zimmermann Telegramblast from the past )Reid Wilson & Lynn Lyons, Anxious Kids, Anxious ParentsAdvice for the distressed )
Dave Grossman with Loren W. Christensen, On CombatPaean to the warrior )

Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural CausesMemento mori )
Giles Milton, Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler’s DefeatSpy games )

Orly Lobel, You Don’t Own Me: How Mattel v. MGA Entertainment Exposed Barbie’s Dark SideLitigation deathmatch )

Jess P. Shatkin, Born to Be Wild: Why Teens Take Risks, and How We Can Help Keep Them Saferebels with a cause )
How you know your clothes collection is a bit aged: your “low-rise” pants—helpfully marked as such on the back label, thanks, Gap!—go to just underneath your navel. Oh, 90s, you had no idea.

Philip Lopate, To Show and To Tell: Essays on the art of the personal essay. Lopate is a fan of both showing and telling, and defends the essay as a meandering exploration of a person’s thoughts, following them down whatever paths they go.

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The origins of totalitarianism )

the enclosure of the American mind )

The 1940 election )

What Marjorie Garber has been thinking about )
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