{"id":4819,"date":"2019-07-05T09:46:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T14:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4819"},"modified":"2019-07-05T09:46:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T14:46:05","slug":"updike-cited-in-new-adam-gopnik-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/07\/05\/updike-cited-in-new-adam-gopnik-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike cited in new Adam Gopnik book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/07\/Schneider-book-199x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4820\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/07\/Schneider-book-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>In reviewing Adam Gopnik&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Thousand-Small-Sanities-Adventure-Liberalism\/dp\/154169936X\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=a+thousand+small+sanities&amp;qid=1562334305&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-1\">A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism<\/a>, <\/em><strong>Howard Schneider<\/strong> writes that Gopnik celebrates liberalism and argues that liberalism &#8220;has been the source of all that&#8217;s civically decent and humane in the world for at least the last two centuries.&#8221; Schneider also takes exception with Gopnik&#8217;s characterization of John Updike, who is referenced in the volume:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two perhaps nitpicking points, but I think the author is wrong about them. Was John Updike really &#8216;religiously obsessed&#8217;? Yes, some of his novels incisively assay religiosity, but he was too urbane to be besotted with religion. Gopnik also suggests that good science can&#8217;t thrive in a tyranny. Nazi Germany and North Korea, unfortunately, prove otherwise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehumanist.com\/magazine\/july-august-2019\/arts_entertainment\/a-thousand-small-sanities-the-moral-adventure-of-liberalism\">&#8220;A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reviewing Adam Gopnik&#8217;s A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism, Howard Schneider writes that Gopnik celebrates liberalism and argues that liberalism &#8220;has been the source of all that&#8217;s civically decent and humane in the world for at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/07\/05\/updike-cited-in-new-adam-gopnik-book\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-updike-in-context"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4821,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions\/4821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}