About a year ago, I started publishing draft chapters of my book in progress, The Liberal Backbone, as episodes of the Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good podcast, at Substack, and on YouTube. It hit me lately that the draft is done – I realized that with the latest chapters I’d started writing a second book. That one will be on alienation, which I think deserves a book of its own.
So I’m calling it. I’m going to switch to editing The Liberal Backbone — and, no doubt, editing some more, and then, more.
The last chapter draft is called “The True Crisis.” In it, I sum up why I think it’s so crucially important for the lost liberal backbone to be restored. In a nutshell: the future of democracy depends on it.
Image: Signing of the Declaration of Independence, by Armand Dumaresq via Wikimedia Commons