Carter book event — Concluding open thread

This book event has gone on much longer than I anticipated, and now we are obviously in the midst of the beginning of the school year. As such, even though we didn’t manage to get through posts on chapter 8 and the epilogue, I think it best to conclude here. My last post wound up raising some broader questions, and we have talked in general terms about chapter 8 in connection with the rest of part III of the book, so hopefully things won’t seem too incomplete.

Here I’d like to open up the floor for any discussion of the remaining parts and particularly of any overarching questions that were not addressed in discussions of individual chapters.

I’d also like to thank Brandy, Xavier, and Anthony for their posts and Jay Carter for his enthusiastic participation in this event.