People care desperately about courage. For once, I am one of the people.
 
Do you want to know what it means to care desperately? It means that I am prepared to give up dignity, talent and generosity for the attribute of courage. When I fantasise about what people will say after my death, I know what I want them to recall—whatever her flaws (too numerous to mention), she certainly had guts. Yet the courage I conjure up in my fantasies exists outside of the extremes of violence, endurance and fear. It is not primarily a virtuous ideal or an idea, but rather an expression of the human spirit—messy, explosive and morally ambivalent.
 
This book is about courage minus the visionaries and martyrs, the survivors and whistleblowers. There will be no fearless warriors, visionary leaders or selfless nuns waiting for you on the pages to come; one or two may make a cameo experience, but that will be the extent of it. This book is about the ideas and practices of courage stripped from all the rhetorical ‘bling’, about moral and intellectual courage that does not fit into an inspirational story.

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• Migrant
• Hero
• Writer
• Open-Door Policy
• University

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• "The Age". The feather and the branding iron; IDEAS
• "The Australian"
• Radio National Book Show
• "Canberra Times". Return to nuance in the meaning of courage
• Jewish News
• Sydney Writers’ Festival
• Raimond Gaita.
• "Readings" Bookstore