Name: Listing some possibilities--OR maybe someone else would like to host?
Start: 2025-01-05T15:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-05T17:00:00-05:00

I'm going to post some books I'm interested in reading and I'll pick one of these as the time gets closer unless someone else wants to be host.

IF you want to offer to be "host" so that you pick the book, volunteer to be the discussion facilitator, and pick the place for a future month, please let me know.
To be the "host":

* You need to have attended at least two in-person events
* Make sure the book aligns or at least doesn't violate Humanist values:
[https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/definition-of-humanism/](https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/definition-of-humanism/)

I'm willing to be the "host" for one of these books:

[The Age of Magical Overthinking](https://www.amazon.com/Age-Magical-Overthinking-Modern-Irrationality/dp/1668007975)

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**hannah arendt on violence**
It’s only 111 pages and it’s available free. Excerpt:
Hence, warfare-from time immemorial the final merciless arbiter in international disputes-has lost much of its effectiveness and nearly all its glamour.
[https://grattoncourses.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/hannah-arendt-on-violence-harcourt-brace-jovanovich-1969.pdf](https://grattoncourses.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/hannah-arendt-on-violence-harcourt-brace-jovanovich-1969.pdf)

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[Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution by Laurence Tribe ](https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00K6PUBWG/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1706650775&sr=8-3)

***The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy***
by Jon Shelton
Excerpt from review by Jennifer C. Berkshire:
Fewer politicians in either party, he notes, now seem to expect that education can remedy our gaping economic inequality or deliver broad economic prosperity for the majority of Americans. President Joe Biden’s economic agenda, including his nominal embrace of labor unions and his debt forgiveness plan, is an acknowledgement that education alone can’t deliver decent jobs and good wages. Shelton’s vision isn’t that different from the one spelled out by Roosevelt: the right to a job, health care and housing, a livable environment, and education. Whoever can articulate that promise, he argues, “can realign American politics for a long time and for the better.”
[https://jacobin.com/2023/03/jon-shelton-education-myth-review-public-schools-inequality-neoliberalism](https://jacobin.com/2023/03/jon-shelton-education-myth-review-public-schools-inequality-neoliberalism)

“***The Water Will Come***” by Jeff Goodell Review: [https://sustainablereview.com/15-climate-change-books-that-will-totally-change-your-perspective/](https://sustainablereview.com/15-climate-change-books-that-will-totally-change-your-perspective/)

“***The Undertow***” by Jeff Sharlet about the rise of antidemocratic extremism.

In Matthew Desmond‘s new book, “***Poverty, by America,***” is a meticulously researched treatise on factors that create poverty and the steps that could be — but are not — taken to alleviate it.

***The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America***
Waldman asks: What can we do when the Supreme Court challenges the country?

Dr. Jennifer Eberdhardt’s book *[Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do](https://amzn.to/376QkOA),*

***Ignorance: A Global History*** by Peter Burke

***Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights***. By Helen Lewis

Richard Powers’ “***The Overstory***” earned him the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in fiction.

***How Minds Change*** by by David McRaney
[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/09/how-minds-change-by-david-mcraney-review](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/09/how-minds-change-by-david-mcraney-review)

***The Persuaders*** by Anand Giridharadas

**The Anomaly** by Herve Le Tellier

Part Airplane Thriller and Part Exploration of Reality, Fate and Free Will
[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/books/review-anomaly-herve-le-tellier.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/books/review-anomaly-herve-le-tellier.html)

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