Fault Lines: Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa First Novel Award

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It's bloated. Baucham wanders into topics that go well beyond CRT, etc. This includes criticizing John Piper for writing a blog that was critical of President Trump as a presidential candidate, and castigating anybody who isn't a single-issue voter. This has nothing to do with the topic of social justice. Rajan . . . comes up with original and important long-term remedies. . . . Rajan's book is a bold enterprise in three ways: firstly it aims to explain the US financial crisis by looking at deep, decade-long fractures in economies and societies; secondly it suggests well-known but radical solutions that few dare put forward; and finally it supplies innovative answers to practical questions. . . . [T]he book will please any reader looking for an inquiry into the deepest causes of the recession and a consistent account of government's errors of omission and commission."—Natacha Postel-Vinay, British Politics and Policy

In the wake of George Floyd’s death and the riots that followed, there were more than protests going on: there was also a frenzy of research. This is a political book, and a bad one. Instead of presenting a path forward, he attempts to point out everyone else's flaws. I tread lightly and cautiously when critiquing a man of Voddie Baucham’s stature for three reasons: I’m also unclear about Voddie’s views of race relations. His opening chapter seems to serve e purpose for the “Gospel of hard work and personal responsibility.” In essence chapter 1 was the “I worked hard and made and so can you!” Fault Lines shares for the first time findings from Dr. Pillemer's ten-year groundbreaking Cornell Reconciliation Project, based on the first national survey on estrangement; rich, in-depth interviews with hundreds of people who have experienced it; and insights from leading family researchers and therapists. He assures people who are estranged, and those who care about them, that they are not alone and that fissures can be bridged.Dozens of experts have explored the reasons behind the ongoing global economic turmoil, and Raghuram Rajan provides his own elegant and thoughtful analysis in Fault Lines."— BizEd But if your estrangement is fresh, this offers real stories of people who were able to restore their relationships with parents, siblings, uncles, aunts...

Rifts and ruptures upend tens of millions of families, leaving a trail of sorrow and despair. But in this wise and moving book, Karl Pillemer combines academic rigor and practical advice to show us how to move toward reconciliation. Fault Lines is a book that will change lives." I also don't think that he did a great job in the beginning outlining the Frankfurt School, cultural Marxism, etc. When conservatives use these terms as bugbears so much, we really need careful definitions, distinctions, and qualifications. Baucham's treatment was shallow at best. He accuses David Platt of defining racism in one particularly unhelpful way even though there's no legitimate proof that he made this definition (87).The left has figured out who to blame for the financial crisis: Greedy Wall Street bankers, especially at Goldman Sachs. The right has figured it out, too: It was government's fault, especially Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Raghuram Rajan of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business says it's more complicated: Fault lines along the tectonic plates of the global economy pushed big government and big finance to a financial earthquake. To him, this was a Greek tragedy in which traders and bankers, congressmen and subprime borrowers all played their parts until the drama reached the inevitably painful end. (Mr. Rajan plays Cassandra, of course.) But just when you're about to cast him as a University of Chicago free-market stereotype, he surprises by identifying the widening gap between rich and poor as a big cause of the calamity."—David Wessel, Wall Street Journal Late-developing economies, especially those that became independent after World War II, pursued a policy of export-led growth. Typically, national savings were directed through a state-controlled financial system to a small set of favoured firms. Governments protected their domestic market from foreign imports through erecting entry barriers in the form of high tariffs and import restrictions. [11] They also provided incentives to domestic firms for being export-oriented, while doling out tax breaks and subsidies to support their development. [12] [13] Low household demand, historical government policies, and vested domestic interests kept traditional exporters strongly dependent on exports, and reliant on international demand for growth. The surpluses put out by these countries in the global goods market were absorbed by developing countries. In the process, these developing countries ran trade deficits, their spending financed by foreign-debt. [14]

I don’t consider myself to be an authority on CRT and secular social justice, so reading and listening to Dr. Baucham is always insightful, even if I disagree with his trajectory or conclusions at times. Reading Fault Lines was no exception. I was fully expecting this book to point out a problem in evangelicalism—namely CRT and its impact on Christians. Dr. Baucham covered numerous errors and issues that have arisen with the popularization of critical race theory in the culture. I appreciated the depth of his knowledge on the topic and found myself resonating with a lot of his concerns, though some of his sources have a notably conservative slant to them. He has certainly done his research, but I wish he could have spent more time on some issues and given his opponents a more charitable reading—especially those in the church. Duren's review shows how some quotes were cut off without full context. Fault Lines shares for the first time findings from Dr. Pillemer's ten-year groundbreaking Cornell Reconciliation Project, based on the first national survey on estrangement; rich, in-depth interviews with hundreds of people who have experienced it; and insights from leading family researchers and therapists. He assures people who are estranged, and those who care about them, th Independent Publisher Book Awards Results Announcement". Independent Publisher . Retrieved 13 July 2018.The author concludes by urging his readers to 1) take every thought captive, 2) confront the lie and hold to the truth, 3) listen with discernment, and 4) correct people who are peddling a worldview that opposes the truth of the gospel.