I recommend to anyone interested in peeling off the meaningless layers of drivel which pass as news and current events the eye-opening information in old magazines and books. We live in an artificial world in which celebrity and attention mean everything and in which a real understanding of where we have been is not really welcome. Read old books and you will find that the same issues which plagued us seventy years ago plague us today. Consider the July 1943 issue of Reader’s Digest.