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READINGFEBRUARY 2025

25368. (Char­lie Angus) Dan­ger­ous Mem­o­ry ― Com­ing of Age in the Decade of Greed
25369. (The Anh Han, Manh Hong Duong & Mar­jaz Perc) Evo­lu­tion­ary Mech­a­nisms that
. . . . . Pro­mote Coop­er­a­tion May Not Pro­mote Social Wel­fare [arti­cle] [d]
25370. (Blaine Hard­en) Escape from Camp 14 ― One Man’s Remark­able Odyssey from 
. . . . . North Korea to Free­dom in the West
25371. (Ben­jamin Isakhan & Eleanor Childs) Gen­der and Cul­tur­al Vio­lence: Feminist
. . . . . Per­spec­tives on Islam­ic State’s Her­itage Destruc­tion [arti­cle]
25372. (Jason Stan­ley) Eras­ing His­to­ry ― How Fas­cists Rewrite the Past to Control 
. . . . . the Future
25373. (Alice Jane Hamil­ton) Find­ing John Rae
25374. (Rus­sell Shorto) The Island at the Cen­ter of the World ― The Epic Sto­ry of 
. . . . . Dutch Man­hat­tan and the For­got­ten Colony That Shaped America

Image of the Month — FEBRUARY 2025

FILMSJANUARY 2025

(Mac­Naughton 1975) Mon­ty Python and the Holy Grail
(Win­ner 1988) Appoint­ment with Death
(Leifer 2019) Plebs: Ep.1 ― The Orgy
(Jones 1979) Mon­ty Python’s Life of Brian
(Delacroix 1952) Le rossig­nol et les cloches
(Hall 1941) Here Comes Mr. Jordan
(Lewin 1959) Jour­ney to the Cen­ter of the Earth
(Teuschl 2017) High­way to the Arc­tic [High­way zum Polarmeer: Kanadas Eisstraßen]

First-time listening for JANUARY 2025

26818. (Irv­ing Berlin) “Putin’ On the Ritz”
Grosse Point Blank Soundtrack:
. . . . 26819. (Vio­lent Femmes) “Blis­ter in the Sun”
. . . . [781] (Clash) “Rudie Can’t Fail”
. . . . 26820. (Eng­lish Beat) “Mir­ror in the Bathroom”
. . . . [14894] (David Bowie & Queen) “Under Pressure”
. . . . 26821. (John­ny Nash) “I Can See Clear­ly Now”
. . . . 26822. (Guns N’ Ros­es) “Live & Let Die”
. . . . 26823. (Faith No More) “We Care a Lot”
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READINGJANUARY 2025

25358. (Allen Hodges Lind­ley-French) Future War and the Defence of Europe
25359. (Jared Yates Sex­ton) The Mid­night King­dom ― A His­to­ry of Pow­er, Para­noia, and the Coming 
. . . . . Crisis
25360. (Magdeli­na Kitano­va) Youth Polit­i­cal Par­tic­i­pa­tion in the EU: Evi­dence from a Cross-national 
. . . . . Analy­sis [arti­cle]
25361. (T. Man­nar­i­ni, M. Legit­ti­mo & C. Talò) Deter­mi­nants of Social and Polit­i­cal Participation 
. . . . . Among Youth [arti­cle]
25362. (Ted Antho­ny) Chas­ing the Ris­ing Sun ― The Jour­ney of an Amer­i­can Song 
25363. (Clif­ford C. Richey) Ancient Fish Depic­tions [arti­cle]
25364. (Anne Apple­baum) Autoc­ra­cy, Inc. ― The Dic­ta­tors Who Want to Run the World
25365. (Agniesz­ka Szym­czak) Qumayrah Val­ley, North­ern Haj­jar Moun­tains, Oman: Late Islam­ic Period 
. . . . . Remains in the Archae­o­log­i­cal Record [arti­cle]
25366. (Hen­ry A. Giroux) Democracy’s Promise and Education’s Chal­lenge [arti­cle]
25366. (Christi­na Sun­ley) The Trick­ing of Freya
25367. (Elle Reeve) Black Pill ― How I Wit­nessed the Dark Cor­ners of the Inter­net Come to Life, 
. . . . . Poi­son Soci­ety, and Cap­ture Amer­i­can Politics

Churches Should Pay to House the Homeless

It’s esti­mat­ed that church­es in Cana­da own approx­i­mate­ly $26,406,700,000 in land and build­ings that they pay lit­tle or no tax­es on. In 2018 alone, they were exempt­ed from $881,838,422 in munic­i­pal tax­es, and that is a typ­i­cal year­ly fig­ure [source: Cen­tre for Inquiry Cana­da report for 2021]. In order to main­tain their ridicu­lous priv­i­leged sta­tus, every church should be required to pay for the hous­ing and care for an appro­pri­ate num­ber of home­less peo­ple —- and this should be car­ried out by sec­u­lar offi­cials so that they don’t use this as an oppor­tu­ni­ty to impose their reli­gion on help­less peo­ple. This is sim­ple jus­tice. Any reli­gious orga­ni­za­tion that oppos­es such a mea­sure would only reveal that their reli­gion is pho­ny, and that their oper­a­tions are a scam. If they do not agree to this, they should be treat­ed as the com­mer­cial enter­pris­es that they real­ly are.

Image of the Month — JANUARY 2025

FILMSDECEMBER 2024

(Kauf­man 1978) Inva­sion of the Body Snatchers
(Hoop­er 1986) Invaders from Mars
(Young 1956) Zarak
(Lan­dis 1980) The Blues Brothers
(Capra 1946) It’s a Won­der­ful Life
(Hitch­cock 1963) The Birds
(Ian­nuc­ci 2017) The Death of Stalin
(Ches­lick 2022) Hun­dreds of Beavers
(Pow­ell 1941) The 49th Parallel

First-time listening for December 2024

26800. (Johann Sebas­t­ian Bach) Can­ta­ta #109 “Ich glaube, lieber Herr, hilf meinem Unglauben”, bwv.109
26801. (Johann Sebas­t­ian Bach) Can­ta­ta #110 “Unser Mund sei voll Lachens”, bwv.110
26802. (Johann Sebas­t­ian Bach) Can­ta­ta #111 “Was mein Gott will, das g’scheh allzeit“, bwv.111
26803. (Arro­gant Worms) Gift Wrapped
26804. (Swin­dle) Long Live Jazz
26805. (Black­pink) The Album
26806. (Johann Sebas­t­ian Bach) Can­ta­ta #112 “Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt”, bwv.112
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READINGDECEMBER 2024

25347. (Elwin W. Midgett) An Account­ing Primer
25348. (Jared Yates Sex­ton) Amer­i­can Rule ― How a Nation Con­quered the World
25349. (David Gilmartin) Towards a Glob­al His­to­ry of Vot­ing: Sov­er­eign­ty, the Dif­fu­sion of 
. . . . . Ideas, and the Enchant­ed Indi­vid­ual [arti­cle]
25350. (Rick Mer­cer) Rick Mer­cer Report ― The Paper­back Book
25351. (Fil­ip­po Zim­maro, et al) Emer­gence of Coop­er­a­tion in the One-shot Prisoner’s Dilemma 
. . . . . through Dis­crim­i­na­to­ry and Samar­i­tan AIs [arti­cle]
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