by Shellee O'Brien | Nov 20, 2021 | Feature, Reading LIst
Why We Believe Reading is a Civic Duty Books have lost their audience. The trend is a downward slope no one expects to turn around. Every year, fewer and fewer people report having finished a book. Our lists of leisure time pursuits often do not include “reading...
by Shellee O'Brien | Oct 22, 2021 | Reading LIst
How Democracies Die: A Must-Read for Preventative Care This book is no post-mortem. Reading it shifts the focus from breaking news to protecting norms. Conventional wisdom suggests that Donald Trump is one of the best things that ever happened for cable news. Every...
by Shellee O'Brien | Jan 5, 2021 | Reading LIst
My 2020 Reading List is Short and Complicated A difficult year made my reading goals impossible so I asked a different question. This is the season to post your 2020 reading list. If there’s one habit that was made for COVID-life, it’s reading. Socially...
by Shellee O'Brien | Mar 8, 2020 | Reading LIst
Reading List: What the Warmth of Other Suns Tells Us about the American Dream The Warmth of Other Suns is the story of the American Dream turned backwards or inside out. It’s a story that’s absolutely necessary to understand before we use that idea of the...
by Shellee O'Brien | Jul 24, 2019 | Reading LIst
The Unanswered Questions of the American Presidency and the Constitution #CitizensRead Book Club picks up a constitutional guide to what future presidents need to know. A recent appeals court decision acknowledged a concession many have resisted. Twitter has...
by Shellee O'Brien | Mar 11, 2016 | Discovery, Reading LIst
American founders worried about limiting our expectations if we only understood ourselves through lists. In the original case, the question revolved around the perils of listing fundamental rights. That list became our Bill of Rights, a document that many mistake for...
