An anti-despair reading list
Feeling bad about the state of the world? I got some books for you.
A few years back, during the Trump years, I discovered that I desperately needed to stop reading bleak, dystopian books about the horrors of human nature. So I began reading books that pushed back a bit against all of the terrible things I was hearing about the world.
This has morphed into a much larger project for me — I’m now writing my own book on the…
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