# #173. Scenarios for Another Civil War in the U.S.

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Podcast: [Delving In with Stuart Kelter](https://stenobird.com/podcast/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973)
Published: 2025-12-07T22:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://delving-in.captivate.fm
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Stephen Marche is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and journalist, a scholar of philosophy and literature, and a former teacher of Renaissance drama at the City University of New York, resigning in 2007 to pursue a full-time writing career ever since. He has written five novels, numerous essays for  The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic , and  The Guardian,  and four works of non-fiction:  How Shakespeare Changed Everything  published in 2011, T he Unmade Bed: The Messy Truth About Men and Women in the Twenty-First Century  published in 2017,  The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future,  published in 2022, and  On Writing and Failure: Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer,  published in 2023. Recorded 12/3/25.

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