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Frank Bruni, New York Times columnist and author, speaks about his book "The Age of Grievance" at The Church on July 26. COURTESY THE ARTIST
Frank Bruni, bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist, comes to The Church in Sag Harbor on Friday, July 26, at 6 p.m. to discuss his book “The Age of Grievance.”
Join in as The Church explores Bruni’s lucid and powerful examination of the ways in which grievance has come to define current culture and politics, on both the right and left. Following this exploration there will be a Q&A with the audience. Books will be available for purchase and to be signed.
Grievance needn’t be bad. It has done enormous good. The United States is a nation born of grievance, and across the nearly 250 years of its existence as a country, grievance has been the engine of morally urgent change. But what happens when all sorts of grievances — the greater ones, the lesser ones, the authentic, the invented — are jumbled together? When people take their grievances to lengths that they didn’t before? A violent mob storms the U.S. Capitol, rejecting the results of a presidential election. Conspiracy theories flourish. Fox News knowingly peddles lies in the service of profit. College students chase away speakers, and college administrators dismiss instructors for dissenting from progressive orthodoxy. Benign words are branded hurtful; benign gestures are deemed hostile. And there’s a potentially devastating erosion of the civility, common ground and compromise necessary for democracy to survive.
How did we get here? What does it say about us, and where does it leave us? “The Age of Grievance” examines these critical questions and charts a path forward.
Tickets to the talk are $25 ($22 members) at thechurchsagharbor.org. The Church is at 48 Madison Street, Sag Harbor.
Staff Writer on Jul 15, 2024