03 July 2008

Send a book to Iraq

When I read Christopher Hitchens, I mostly do so to yell at him in my head (women are too funny! Racism is not by definition more serious than sexism! Dude, don't pick on a nun!) but I was pleased to see he devoted his latest column in Slate to asking for book donations for an English library in Iraq. We may differ on many points, but Hitch and I both agree that libraries are important, especially for new universities like the American University of Iraq.

Naturally, just any book won't be of use to founding a scholarly library, but I'll go through my stacks and see if I have any historical or political material suitable for sending.

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