Ian Buruma was born in Holland in 1951. During his Zócalo talk on religion, he remembered Holland as a country that “as late as the 1960s — and people forget this — was still a profoundly religious place. On Sundays, you’d hear very little but various kinds of preaching.” That collapsed over the course of the decade, he said. Before his lecture, Buruma, author of Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents, told us more about himself.
Ian Buruma grew up in Holland with an atheist father and a Jewish mother. Quoting writer Adam Gopnick, he said his family expressed that faith only “in the zeal with which they celebrated Christmas.”
Richard Whitmire, a longtime education reporter, often focused his work on the idea that girls were being shortchanged in schools. “I had two daughters and I thought this was an outrage,” he said. “I wrote these articles uncritically, and it wasn’t long afterward that I realized it was a big mistake.” He found that boys — from his extended family, his local schools, and from national data — were falling behind in school. Whitmire, author of Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons from an Educational System That’s Leaving Them Behind
by Charles Harper Webb
pretended to be a foot bridge across a drainage ditch.
“Pay the bridge a penny,” said a handwritten card by a coffee cup full of pennies.
Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush
by John Yoo
In Crisis and Command, John Yoo, known primarily for his controversial take on what is and isn’t torture, rebukes critics of the Bush administration’s alleged abuse of his office.
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