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The Ezra Klein Show
The host noted that he began reading the book to inform his thinking about humanity's animal nature, and later highlighted several of its striking passages about how we deny our animality in everyday life.
All this was in my head as I started reading Melanie Challenger's book How to be Animal, a new history of what it means to be human.
— Episode: How ‘Being Animal’ Could Help Us Be Bett...
Episode: How ‘Being Animal’ Could Help Us Be Better Humans
The host noted that he began reading the book to inform his thinking about humanity's animal nature, and later highlighted several of its striking passages about how we deny our animality in everyday life.
All this was in my head as I started reading Melanie Challenger's book How to be Animal, a new history of what it means to be human.
You write, we are animals as we embrace and as our bloodied newborns slide from the bodies of women but not when we make vows. We are animals as we bite into the flesh of our meal but not in the workplace.