{"id":65136,"date":"2025-08-07T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/65136\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:05:08","slug":"the-novels-conservatives-want-you-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/65136\/","title":{"rendered":"The novels conservatives want you to read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">ON A RAINY summer\u2019s morning, eight students and a professor sat around a table at Thomas Aquinas College, a Catholic institution north-west of Los Angeles. They were formally dressed\u2014the men wore ties\u2014and they addressed each other as \u201cMr\u201d and \u201cMs\u201d. For hours the group debated \u201cThe Bear\u201d, William Faulkner\u2019s tale of a young hunter disillusioned with mankind\u2019s efforts to subdue the land and its creatures. The scene would have delighted anyone who despairs that university students do not, will not and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/leaders\/2024\/12\/12\/can-you-read-as-well-as-a-ten-year-old\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cannot read<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ON A RAINY summer\u2019s morning, eight students and a professor sat around a table at Thomas Aquinas College,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,690,88],"class_list":["post-65136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-culture","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}