Finished Reading: The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice by Wendell Berry 📚

To the negative reviewers out there, I would concede that it is perhaps not his best writing. But I expected something hard-won and difficult to face, which is to say, the truth. And that is exactly what I found.

There is a “history that both divides us and unites us,” and it is a history that is “complicated enough, questionable enough, and interesting enough to keep us reading and writing, asking and answering, talking to one another, and thus enlarging the possibility of friendship among us.”

More friendships and hard truth, please; fewer enemies and easy divides.