[Fuusm-l] Today's Issues 8/16/2020 Coronavirus Update 8/13/2020

[Ted Goertzel]

The Today’s Issues group is meeting Sunday mornings at 9:30 in the parlor
of the Religious Education building next to the church following social
distancing guidelines. For this Sunday the group will discuss two essays
from the August 20th issue of the New York Review of Books.

Also, on Thursday, August 13, there will be a ZOOM discussion of The
Coronavirus: What Have we Learned? Where are we going? Led by Dr. Paul
Haupt and physician and Dr. Ted Goertzel, sociologist. This is a follow-up
to a course that the Institute for Learning in Retirement offered in the
summer, but it is open to all  Click here for information on the discussion
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RgvyyoiFr_s7BSECTIADpdSFp49JWEd27CwjAawp0Lo/edit?usp=sharing>
.

The readings for the Today’s Issues discussion, in the August 20 NYR are:

Page 13. Jonathan Stevenson, Revenge Served Tepid, a review of The Room
Where It Happened: A White House Memoir by John Bolton.  This will be an
introduction to a discussion of Trump’s foreign policies.

Page 38, Jonathan Freedland, Disinformed to Death
<https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/08/20/fake-news-disinformed-to-death/>,
a review of the following three books:

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
by Thomas Rid

The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
by Ben Buchanan

Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots,
Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives by Philip N. Howard

Disinformed to Death
<https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/08/20/fake-news-disinformed-to-death/>
can be read on the NYR site without a password. A copy of Revenge Served
Tepid is attached.
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