Finished reading: Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation by Jonathan Lear 📚

A profound meditation on Plenty Coups, the Crow, and the moral psychology of radical hope when despair seems all but inevitable. Lear is to be commended for creatively and sympathetically approaching his subject, all the while drawing out the broader implications that Plenty Coups' experience might have for us all. I couldn’t resist considering the overlap between Lear’s conception of “radical hope” and the biblical understanding of hope.