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Topic: violence

Who We (Humans) Are

A Book Review of Richard Wrangham, Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution (2019)

The purpose of this book, R. Wrangham, The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution (2019), is to…

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Radiant In Joy

A long-time ecological thinker and critic of American consumerist society, h has also written two books and a collection of poetry. The essay presented here has been condensed from a longer piece, and I hope that in “pruning” it I have preserved for QUF readers a lot of its unique style—often blunt, sometimes whimsical, and always deeply thoughtful. Paul is the kind of appreciative author an editor loves to work with, and I follow his express instructions here in “taking a deep bow.” R.R.G.

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