We will meet on the 4th Sunday of each month after service for an hour. (about noon to 1)

Sunday Dec 22 will be our first meeting in person in Classroom 3.

Strongmen by Ruth Ben-Ghiat.  (Book is about $9 on amazon)

Dec 22 – Chapts 1-5 for Dec 22.

Chapts 6-end for January 26 session.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the “strongman” playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin—enabling her to predict with uncanny accuracy the recent experience in America and Europe. In Strongmen, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule in the future.

Then we will read in Feb and March:

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times)

And perhaps in April and May:

On Freedom by Timothy Snyder

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival