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[This is one of the finalists in the 2024 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I\u2019ll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you\u2019ve read them all, I\u2019ll ask you to vote for a favorite, so remember which ones you liked]

Matthew Scully, author of Dominion, is an unlikely animal welfare advocate. He\u2019s a conservative Christian who worked as a speechwriter for George W. Bush. That\u2019s like finding out that Greta Thunberg\u2019s Chief of Staff spent their spare time writing a 400-page, densely researched book called \u201cGuns Are Good, Actually.\u201d\xa0

Scully\u2019s unusual background could be why it took me years of reading everything on animal welfare I could get my hands on before I stumbled on his 2002 manifesto. Let this be a warning to other authors \u2014 write just one little State of the Union address that exalts the War on Terror and your books might not get a lot of reach in more liberal, EA-adjacent circles.\xa0

Scully is like a right-wing, vegetarian, Christian, David Foster Wallace. If you read DFW\u2019s Consider the Lobster and thought, \u201cI wish someone would write a full length book with this vibe, where a very talented and surprisingly funny writer excoriates problematic industries,\u201d Dominion is the book for you.\xa0

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-dominion-by-matthew\xa0