Saturday Link Love: Figuratively, Alt-Right, Integration, Child Marriage, and Nassar

Saturday Link Love is a feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier.

The 300-Year History of Using ‘Literally’ Figuratively, on The Cut—“Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, Vladimir Nabokov, and David Foster Wallace all used the emphatic “literally” in their works.”

Follower Factory, on New York Times—“Despite rising criticism of social media companies and growing scrutiny by elected officials, the trade in fake followers has remained largely opaque.”

The alt-right are targeting disgruntled white male lefties to join their movement, on Quartz—“To make their ideas more palatable to a skeptical public, the Nouvelle Droite thinkers drew from left-wing critiques of capitalism.”

When White Parents Won’t Integrate Public Schools, on CityLab—“What do you ask parents to do, specifically? We first ask parents to tour two schools that aren’t otherwise on their list—meaning schools with a high concentration of poverty.”

Sherry Johnson was raped, pregnant and married by 11. Now she’s fighting to end child marriage in America, on CNN—“She had not finished fifth grade yet on March 29, 1971, when she became a wife as well as a mother.”

My Larry Nassar Testimony Went Viral. But There’s More to the Gospel Than Forgiveness, on Christianity Today—“I have found it very interesting, to be honest, that every single Christian publication or speaker that has mentioned my statement has only ever focused on the aspect of forgiveness. Very few, if any of them, have recognized what else came with that statement, which was a swift and intentional pursuit of God’s justice.”

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