A new book, Different Values: Cultural Shifts in America, Covid to War in the Mideast, offers a timely and reflective look at changes shaping contemporary American life. The book explores the forces that have moved center stage in recent years, including our re-colonization due to inherent bias in AI, natural disasters, unaffiliated political movements, and the search for a just peace in the Israel-Gaza war.
Cultural Shifts and Moral Reckoning
The book can be read as a response to the challenge the former Pope Francis offered at the start of the COVID-pandemic, when he wrote in The New York Times that “A crisis reveals what is in our hearts: society must allow itself to be touched by the pain of others in order to emerge better than before.” The author presses toward a conviction that nonviolence, empathy, and moral vision are not naïve luxuries, but in the absence of international co-operation for peace, “the only counter force strong enough to interrupt revenge.”
Readers seeking a socially engaged meditation on post-pandemic American life can find Different Values: Cultural Shifts in America, Covid to War in the Mideast on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
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