[Fuusm-l] Today's Issues Readings for May 30 2021

[Ted Goertzel]

The Today's Issues group is meeting at 9:30 Sunday in the parlor of the
Religious Education building next to the church.  Everyone is welcome, all
regular members are vaccinated.  For this Sunday we are discussing two
articles from the May 27 issue of the New York Review of Books.

Michael Kazin, "Ending the Kennedy Romance,
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sXCA_lw2mzP73fdSr6JdjqbCa0WKeY9jpXdi2HYVG1Q/edit?usp=sharing>"
a review of JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956
by Fredrik Logevall  The first volume of Frederik Logevall’s biography of
JFK reveals the scope of his ambition and the weakness of his political
commitments.

Ariel Dorfman, "A Taxonomy of Tyrants
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_3jx2hgLH6tiEAdSbXVMYqIevr2sTar8VTi9tmAkEuk/edit?usp=sharing>,"
a review of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat.  How can one make sense of the alarming replication of
malignant rulers in so many different countries over the past hundred
years? Is it possible to include them all in one sweeping, cohesive vision,
to marshal their heterogeneous manifestations inside the pages of a single
book?

Copies of the readings are attached.  The discussion ends in time to attend
church services in the Sanctuary.
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