on the upside
I bought 4 books today for 4 dollars. Yes!
The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade
The No-Nonsense Guide to International Development
This totally fits with the JRS and University of the Streets idea that difficult things can (and should) be spoken about intelligibly in regular language.
The Three Questions - Prosperity and The Public Good - an old Bob Rae book because I’m interested in him now. And because he uses Hillel’s questions as the frame. (and because it’s a dollar!)
and The Vanishing American Jew - because I am one (well, not american). And I find the question of maintaining identity and of communities having control fascinating and something that comes up again and again. The latest example is about ISF and net neutrality. Basically how we contravene it in order to promote other community values. Anyways - not enough time to get into that stuff now.