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Click or paste for my newsletter explaining the real story of embezzlement and scandal behind my novel Where No Man Pursueth and how my great-grandmother figures into the story https://lnkd.in/gQZtvQiE

📖 How can we think about the question of implication in violence across individual, transnational, and ecological scales? And how might multi-generational family novels help us in this exploration? Susanne Knittel and I examine these and other questions in our co-authored chapter, which is now out in open access:

WHEN GOOD PEOPLE JUST WATCH~ Here is an article I wrote for Three-fifths Magazine online: https://lnkd.in/e89GBg2q

FORWARD BY DALAI LAMA: "Journalists have an important role to educate and inform the public, as an observer and in an objective manner. That is what Lew Simons, whom, I have had the opportunity to meet several times, has been practicing while covering developments in different parts of the world. His revealing book, To Tell the Truth, is a testament to his application of this approach." More info: https://lnkd.in/eTPsHZSd Buy this book: https://lnkd.in/eYPREsGx

Two new books on Spinoza are perfectly timed for a new age of censoriousness, political authoritarianism, and intellectual intolerance, writes Enrique Krauze. Read the full commentary at the link for free. https://bit.ly/3yFYqh1

From "Skylines", my upcoming book on modern urban conflict - As we can see, to effectively make sense of, and untangle those “condensation of conflicts, opposites and antagonism” will require, or even demand, a deep and thorough understanding of the levers and red buttons of conflict causes and their effects. Otherwise, we are simply dealing with the conflict symptoms, which can easily end up in an unending high-stakes game of whack-a-mole.

The Old Western Culture Reader Series. 16 volumes of great books from the Greeks to the Early Modern period. See each one: https://lnkd.in/gPc2TumN

Dive into 'Girl Out of Darkness' 🌌, a suspenseful tale of murder and profound societal issues. Discover the darkness within human hearts and solve the mystery today! Purchase your copy now: www.jimchrist.net 📖🔍

In this week's episode of Australiana from The Spectator Australia, I chat to political scientist and author, Yascha Mounk. We discuss Yascha's brilliant book, 'The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time'. Jonathan Haidt called it, "Among the most insightful and important books written in the last decade on democracy and its current torments". I agree wholeheartedly. Listen: https://lnkd.in/e-syUeGz

Residential school denialism is so harmful to all of us. Here's a clip from an interview with Aaron Pete, in which I have the privilege of sharing some recommendations on resources and self-care in response to denialist literature. What resources would you recommend? How would you approach self-care? #Indigenous #SelfCare #BiggerThanMe