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A " cause célèbre " is an incident arousing widespread controversy. The French term became popular in the English language during the Alfred Dreyfus Affair, a legal and political case that caused widespread public debate. While the people who caused these hoaxes, conspiracies, and public debates pass away, the controversies live on in the public memory through fiction books, plays, and other adaptions. I had never heard of Mary Toft's hoax of giving birth to rabbits until lit

Great non-fiction, longform articles to send you down a rabbit hole and possibly learn something new! "Light Among the Nations" by Suzanne Schneider for Jewish Currents "Why Americans Hate the Media" by James Fallows for The Atlantic Monthly " The Whitening Thief: Latent White Supremacy in Percy Jackson" by Maxwell T. Paule for Medium I found this interesting in the context of everyone suggesting Percy Jackson series in place of Harry Potter. Maybe there is no "perfect, u

In my blog post about fiction books inspired by ABC's The Bachelor, I listed all known books. For this list of fiction books inspired by intellectual property law, I've only listed books I've read or skimmed; so this is nowhere near a complete list! There are a lot of novels that touch on the themes of property ownership of technology and art, but I've only included books that specifically mention trade secrets, trademarks, copyright, or patents as legal principles. My favor