Daniel Paul Davis: 6 books

Should Donald Trump vet President Obama's proposals? Was Roger Williams the first "American"? How can there be problems if a policeman goes hunting? Mock the mighty thru history. You might actually be required to know some of this stuff, so you might as well be able to put your two cents...

Researched + documented history with a generous ladeling of mockery sauce to help choke down those annoyingly dry details. This is the sort of thing a high school teacher could shove at a clutch of students and get away with (since this project is a G-rated operation.) Easy-to-read, discete incidents...

History happens, but that never means we must like it. We should know it happened, but then we should react appropriately: with laughter. After all, we can't change what was done before us (or to us), but we can laugh at the dead who did it. Enjoy mocking the greats.

The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists—from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby—describe their work. If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix—how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines...

Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats....

The Politically Correct University shows how the universities' quest for 'diversity' has produced in too many departments a stifling uniformity of thought. Required reading for those who want American universities to eschew political correctness." — Michael Barone, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute