{"id":176384,"date":"2020-06-28T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/28\/today-in-savage-book-reviews\/"},"modified":"2020-06-28T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T03:48:00","slug":"today-in-savage-book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/28\/today-in-savage-book-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Savage Book Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Taibbi giving a savage book review <a href=\"https:\/\/taibbi.substack.com\/p\/on-white-fragility\">is its own reward<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot possibly due justice to it so I will leave you with just this quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">It takes a special kind of ignorant for an author to choose an example  that illustrates the mathematical opposite of one\u2019s intended point, but  this isn\u2019t uncommon in <em>White Fragility, <\/em>which may be the dumbest book ever written. It makes <em>The Art of the Deal <\/em>read like <em>Anna Karenina.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go read.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you disagree with the thesis, you will be amused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Taibbi giving a savage book review is its own reward. I cannot possibly due justice to it so I will leave you with just this quote: It takes a special kind of ignorant for an author to choose an example that illustrates the mathematical opposite of one\u2019s intended point, but this isn\u2019t uncommon in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[464,398,496,606],"class_list":["post-176384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-good-writing","tag-racism","tag-reviews","tag-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}