Reader's Adversary

Assorted Links

This post doesn’t carry a misspelling in the title--it’s our attempt to follow the spirit of HxA and offer a range of provocative viewpoints from a wide range of scholars, thinkers, and communities--hence “adversary” instead of “advisory.”  

These assorted links will be posted at more or less regular intervals, once or twice a month.  All of them should link to articles, posts, podcasts, videos, or other sources that address some aspect of open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement--sometimes bearing especially on librarians’ roles and practices, and other times framing larger cultural and political  issues for us.   This first set addresses this broader framing.    I hope they’re useful (and provocative)!

OpenDemocracy: Free Thinking for the World

Why we must all reduce our moral certainties | openDemocracy

Overcoming Bias (Robin Hanson’s blog) 

Overcoming Bias : The Accuracy of Authorities

IntellectInterviews (interview with Steven Pinker)

Steven Pinker | Thoughts of an intellectual - IntellectInterviews

James Clear site

Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds (jamesclear.com)

National Affairs articles (on the full range of policy matters involved in big tech regulation and censorship; on veracity in various modes of institutional and public discourses) 

Big Tech, Big Government: The Challenges of Regulating Internet Platforms | National Affairs

Literally, Seriously, and Institutional Integrity | National Affairs