Notices:

• Lilliana Mason, Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity (University of Chicago Press, 2018), reviewed here by Daniel Bennett, a GF alum and assistant professor of political science at John Brown University.

• David French, Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation (St. Martin's Press, 2020). An alarmed observer currently affiliated with no political party warns about the dangerous dynamics of polarization, envisions how secession might dismember America, and proposes a path toward saving the nation.

• Jonathan Kuttab, Beyond the Two-State Solution (Nonviolence International, 2020). Long time Christian nonviolence advocate -- and lawyer! -- Kuttab explains why a two-state solution is no longer viable, and describes a vision of a single democratic state with a constitution guaranteeing the rights and security of both Jews and Palestinians. Kuttab is frank about the challenges of creating a civil democratic political culture involving two polarized, alienated, mutually-wounded groups.