Patricia J. Williams — the American legal scholar — was born on August 28, 1951 in Boston, Massachusetts.
She is a graduate of both Wellesley College and holds a law degree from Harvard University.
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Patricia J. Williams was born
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via The New York Times:
The German Auto Industry, a Pillar of the National Psyche, Is Trembling
by Jack Ewing and Jim Tankersley
published on August 3, 2026
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University of Birmingham
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Maryanne Wolf, a cognitive neuroscientist at UCLA, argues that people are losing the ability to think deeply about writing. That doesn’t mean they are forgetting how to decode individual words. Rather, they are losing the higher-order abilities of comprehension and synthesis. America, in other words, isn’t illiterate. It’s postliterate.
~ Rose Horowitch via The Atlantic
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In our zeal, we refuse to understand past generations as they understood themselves. We expect them to have organized their mental categories the way we organize ours—and we are greatly disappointed when we discover that they did not.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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General Charles Q. Brown Jr. was born
on this day in 1962
Charles Q. Brown Jr. – the American four-star general who serves as the 21st Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and previously served as the 22nd Chief of Staff of the Air Force – was born on this day – August 27, 1962 – in San Antonio, Texas.
He is a graduate of Texas Tech University, Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, and the Air Command and Staff College.
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