No, this is not a new menu item at my fictional BBQ shack—or some kind of new junk book store. Rather, I’m using today’s post as a dumping ground for intellectual history items that don’t fit my usual, ironically titled “Light Reading” series—though these items truly are light USIH reading. 1. If my schedule were free February 2-3, 2012, and I happened to be on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara, I’d attend this gathering in a heartbeat: “The Port Huron Statement at 50.” I confess that I had never really done the obvious in thinking about Read more