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"It is hard, I found, to be called a traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man; a name that sticks, that fits, that convinces. I was half convinced myself."

This is an excellent and fascinating piece of scholarship

I like the pace and imagination here. And chapter 4 is a brilliant shory story of its own. I've not read a more evocative contrast between being unto death and being unto love.

It's interesting how much the early 2000s Taliban resembles 2020s MAGA

This fictional 2032 is waaaay too imaginable.

Among other things, this is reminding me how to think and write

"Although there is good reason to recognize the modern evangelical doctrine of marriage as a faithful development of ancient tradition, it *is* a development"

Helpful. Shows how, after the 1950s, neither conservatives nor liberals held the "traditional" (pre-modern) view of sexuality

I'm skeptical of CEO-driven self-help but this isn't quite that and hasn't been bad

Chapter 5 is one of the most succinct accounts of white imperialist colonization you're ever to read

Took me this long to realize this a retelling of the arrival of european settlers