![]() ![]() Other lessons include not obeying without thinking, defending institutions, honoring professional ethics, standing out, using language kindly, believing in the primacy of truth, developing an investigative attitude, contributing to worthy causes, learning from peers in other countries, watching out for dangerous words, and striving to act courageously. Be aware of the ways social media and cyberspace limit your freedoms. Nurture the community around you by demolishing social barriers. Dodge political agendas by avoiding the news and reading more books. Here are three of the most-important takeaways: In this brief book, historian Timothy Snyder provides a guide on how to resist and survive in the climate of authoritarianism that afflicts America. (2) Book review: Snyder, Timothy, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, unabridged 2-hour audiobook, read by the author, Random House Audio, 2017. At 77 and 64 pages, respectively, Attar and Khayyam are most-prominent in the book. The works of some four-dozen poets are sampled. The selections are presented in rough chronological order, from the 9th century to the 16th century. This book contains samples of Persian poetry that for various reasons grabbed the attention of Molla Sadra, a 16th/17th-century Iranian philosopher with broad interests in literature. (1) Book review: Book review: Khatami, Ahmad (ed.), Gozideh-ye She'r-e Farsi ( Collection of Persian Poems, Selected by Molla Sadra-ye Shirazi), Elm Publications, 349 pp., 2020. Lately, non-book items (such as political news, tech news, puzzles, oddities, trivia, humor, art, and music) have formed the vast majority of the entries.Įntries in each section appear in reverse chronological order.Īrchived blogs up to 2011 Blog Entries for 2023ĥ (Sunday): Today, I offer three book reviews on Persian poetry, tyranny, and a prairie memoir. Given that the book introductions and reviews constituted a form of personal blog, I decided to title this page "Blog & Books," to also allow discussion of interesting topics unrelated to books from time to time. The rapid expansion of the list of books warranted devoting a separate page to it. ![]() This page was created in 2009 as an outgrowth of the section entitled "Books Read or Heard" in my personal page. ![]()
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