The Holocausts We All Deny: Collective Trauma in the World Today

Beautifully written, clear sighted, honest, nuanced, and necessary reading in our contemporary moment of rising authoritarianism. Genocide and its tactics have been making a comeback, and it is all too often the victims of one generation who become the perpetrators in the next, transmuting "never again" into a rallying cry for the next act of mass violence.

Few can keep their hearts open amid an endless fusillade of sorrow, so most just deny it is happening. But all too many find themselves eager to get in on the action and it is easier now than ever before.