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My Top 10 Best Reads of 2024

*Author’s note: This list is not based on books published in 2024, but rather the books I personally read in 2024. Some, but not all of them, were brand new releases this year; and some were published decades ago. This was a reading year full of nonfiction–lots and lots of great antifascist, anarchist nonfiction. Maybe that’s not surprising, given I joined a local Progressive Book Club that…

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Currently reading and highly recommend: American Anarchy, The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century by Michael Willrich

In the early twentieth century, anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman championed a radical vision of a world without states, laws, or private property. Militant and sometimes violent, anarchists were heroes to many working-class immigrants. But to many others, anarchism was a terrifyingly foreign ideology. Determined to crush it, government officials launched a decades-long “war on anarchy,” a brutal program of spying, censorship, and deportation that set the foundations of the modern surveillance state. The lawyers who came to the anarchists’ defense advanced groundbreaking arguments for free speech and due process, inspiring the emergence of the civil liberties movement.

American Anarchy tells the gripping tale of the anarchists, their allies, and their enemies, showing how their battles over freedom and power still shape our public life.

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"[In 2003,] according to the CDC, there was something like 22 percent of American parents of young children were refusing one or more vaccines for their children. Five years later, that percentage had nearly doubled to about 40 percent of all Americans. So the vaccine controversy today is one of the most important public health crises we face in America."

Historian Michael Willrich on the 100+ year long vaccine controversy.

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Historian Michael Willrich details the smallpox epidemic of 1898-1904, explaining that many people were forced to receive the vaccine against their will: "There was one episode in Middlesboro, KY where the police and a group of vaccinators went into this African-American section of town, rounded up people outside this home, handcuffed the men and women and vaccinated them at gunpoint. It's a shocking scene and very much at odds with our daily-held notions of American liberty." [full interview here]

#public health #epidemic #smallpox #michael willrich #pox: an american history #vaccines #vaccination

Vaccines have had to fight against public skepticism from the beginning. In 1802, after Edward Jenner published his first results claiming that scratching cowpox pus into the arms of healthy children could protect them against smallpox, a political cartoon appeared showing newly vaccinated people with hooves and horns.

Historian Michael Willrich, in a New York Times op-ed entitled "Why Parents Fear the Needle." Tomorrow, Willrich will tell us about the smallpox epidemic in America in the early 20th century...and how it sparked a huge debate on civil liberties. His book is called Pox: An American History.

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