Living with Hate in American Politics and Religion: How Popular Culture Can Defuse Intractable Differences

Jeffrey Israel, Assistant Professor of Religion. Columbia University Press, April 2019. Available on Amazon. This book offers an innovative argument for the power of playfulness in popular culture to make our capacity for coexistence imaginable. Jeffrey Israel explores how people from different backgrounds can pursue justice together, even as they play with their divisive grudges, prejudices, and desires in their cultural lives.