Current Events


Fear: Trump in the White House
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Between the World and Me
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Just Mercy
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
How to Be an Antiracist
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
The Hate U Give
God is concerned with, and active in, current world events, but these events are not so “set in stone” that there is nothing we as human beings can do to change the future.
Curtis Ferrell, Dual Citizenship: Living as a Christian in America

Christopher Moore
It turns out that one can perpetrate all manner of heinous villainy under a cloak of courtesy and good cheer. . .a man will forfeit all sensible self-interest if he finds you affable enough to share your company over a flagon of ale.
Christopher Moore, Fool

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