3 pounds only

One enjoyable thing here is charities and their books. Normally readers that got bored about a book gave it instead throwing it in the litter. No wonder the books on charities are, as a matter of fact, sometimes, a ticket to boredom. But in these last years I got some few interesting books, but not that much as to fit my luggage when returning to Brazil again: probably I will give them back to the place they belong: the shelf of boredom in the charities.

The last book I got was pretty weird: “The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America” by David Horowitz (3 pounds only) which is probably the most conservative book I ever read (actually, I didn’t finished, I am trying to keep reading until the end, what I think is pretty hard). Horowitz is a Marxist-turned-conservative who writes for online magazines which are conservative publications. His book is a list of American resident professors which, according to him, are anti-americanism and left-wing positions in the universities, a danger to the academy. He says he works “to end the political abuse of the university and to restore integrity to the academic mission as a disinterested pursuit of knowledge.”

Who is expecting at least some elegancy in doing such witch-hunt list will give up just by browsing it: names are bolded in the title and a record, similar to criminal records, follows it. Horowitz is a defender of imperialism and neoliberal economic, and normally uses to attack in a rhetoric manner diminishing the intellectual evidences by criticising private life of his victims. If it is not a book to be taken seriously, at least it is to give you pretty funny amusement and some laughs: it has reminded me Olavo de Carvalho in Brazil. But, even so, I will not put here any link as ad to Horowitz. I think Mr. Horowitz would think that a book which he does not agree with the values should be burned. But in my case I will just return it to a charity, in order to keep the Britons laughing.