The Cold War’s Secret War for the Human

The Book That Refuses Comfortable Distance


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This episode reviews One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This as a furious, grieving, and morally direct work of nonfiction. Omar El Akkad writes from the wound of Gaza, but the book widens into a larger indictment of Western liberalism, state violence, selective empathy, and the stories powerful societies tell themselves to remain innocent. In three minutes, the episode asks whether the book’s force comes from its argument, its grief, or from the terrible clarity of a sentence many people may only admit when it is too late.
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The Cold War’s Secret War for the HumanBy Tommy