Eric Klinenberg
Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowlege at NYU. New book: *2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.*
- "It's the Library of Congress, not the Library of the Executive Branch." Libraries are the soul of all open societies. Now they're under attack by an authoritarian regime hellbent on denying access, destroying knowledge, and dismantling democratic institutions. It's up to us to defend them.
- Great news for every American who wants more masked federal agents snatching people on the streets, carrying them away in unmarked vans, detaining them in camps, and deporting them to foreign prisons...perhaps without habeus corpus. 20,000 extra DHS officers on order from the White House.
