‘Sup, readers? So many lectures and books this week, it’s like the platonic ideal of college before college actually started all over again. And speaking of late-adolescent fixations: there’s Malcolm Gladwell and also Howard Zinn talking about his new documentary, A People’s History of Howard Zinn, a stunning expose in which we, America, find out Zinn cruelly inflected all of the world’s First Peoples with bird flu, for laughs. Ninth grade AP US History will never be the same. MORE »