New "Book Club" Section
As I mentioned yesterday, I’m consolidating my posting on Substack into this one channel that I’ve been calling MakingHistory. I’ve been posting here for four years, so there are nearly a thousand posts. It has been suggested that I might want to expand the name to include some of the topics I had been trying to float separate channels for. Haven’t decided that yet, but whatever I end up calling it, this will be the place.
A couple of things that have begun happening overnight and this morning:
I have temporarily opened all of my posts so they can be read by everyone, for free. Typically all my posts are free for a month but then remain open to contributors. This creates an incentive to contribute without penalizing people, I think (I hate it when I’m reading something on someone else’s site and then I can’t comment or I get halfway through the piece and then it’s cut off!). The advantage of contributing is that you can take your time browsing through the nearly thousand posts and you can read serialized stuff like my biography of Dr. Charles Knowlton or watch my Book Club videos at your leisure.
I have created a Book Club section that will appear in the navigation bar, where I’m uploading all the videos from the seventeen series of meetings we have had since winter 2021. It will probably take a couple of days, but I’ll upload all the videos from all the Zoom conversations. We’ve done seventeen series over the past couple of years, discussing The Dawn of Everything, How to Take Smart Notes, The Extended Mind, Too Much to Know, A Brief History of Equality, Poorly Understood, Antinet Zettelkasten, Myth America, Doughnut Economics, Knowing What We Know, The Big Myth, How to Read a Book, The Parrot and the Igloo, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, and White Trash. Next week we’ll begin discussing The Capital Order, and I’ll post those discussions as we have them.
I’ll continue to migrate content from the two channels I’ll be folding into this one. I’ve finished with Freethought History, since there wasn’t that much there yet. There are about another hundred posts in Lifelong Learners that I’ll reproduce here. I’m not announcing these as I publish them, so you shouldn’t get flooded with emails. But they’ll be showing up in their Sections (like Freethinkers, the Great Conversation, Note-Making, and Primary Sources). So there should be a lot trickling into those lists. There will also be a lot, if you ever visit my main page (does anybody do this? I don’t tend to do it much with other people’s pages, but maybe I’m weird).