The Marvel of Martyrdom: The Power of Self-Sacrifice in a Selfish World by Sophia Moskalenko & Clark McCauley
The Marvel of Martyrdom takes a broad perspective on self-sacrifice and martyrdom, bringing together religion, popular culture, history, psychology and mythology. Stories of individuals both famous (Gandhi) and obscure (Rodrigo Rosenberg) intertwine with research on altruism, happiness, and radicalization to terrorism.
Tom Nichols gets it 90% right in his latest @TheAtlantic post: If democracy dies in the next several years, he says, blame Trump, his democracy-loathing cabal, the Republicans in general, and feckless voters who miss what's at stake.
But while he mentions the press, he doesn't assign nearly enough responsibility to its cowardice and willful refusal to a) recognize what's at stake and b) actively fight to save our system.
@Susan_Larson_TN I just think that even threatening that POS was bad as now has given him the closest to actual #martyrdom by an [attempted] assasination...
And that is bad - because it does nothing but embolden him as enemy.