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British novelist J. R. Hartley noted that “the past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” As the lives and views of many famous writers of the past have come under increased scrutiny, the tendency to avoid engaging with their works has accelerated. In “Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind” (Profile Books, 2020), Baylor University’s Alan Jacobs makes a powerful case to renew one’s metaphorical passport, arguing that the books written by complicated historical figures might just be the spark we need to shake ourselves from our modern complacency.

Please join us for a conversation between Dr. Jacobs and AEI’s Yuval Levin on how reading works by the dead might offer the tools necessary to fight the “tyranny of everyday anxieties” plaguing the living.

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