Join us for an evening with David McRaney, a September Writer-In-Residence with The Community Library at the Hemingway House. McRaney will discuss his book, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion – a brain-bending investigation of why some people never change their minds—and others do in an instant.

What made a prominent conspiracy-theorist YouTuber finally see that 9/11 was not a hoax? How do voter opinions shift from neutral to resolute? Can widespread social change only take place when a generation dies out? Delving into the latest research of psychologists and neuroscientists, How Minds Change explores the limits of reasoning, the power of groupthink, and the effects of deep canvassing.

Told with McRaney’s trademark sense of humor, compassion, and scientific curiosity, it’s an eye-opening journey among cult members, conspiracy theorists, and political activists, from Westboro Baptist Church picketers to LGBTQ campaigners in California – that ultimately challenges us to question our own motives and beliefs. In an age of dangerous conspiratorial thinking, can we rise to the occasion with empathy? An expansive, big-hearted journalistic narrative, How Minds Change reaches surprising and thought-provoking conclusions, to demonstrate the rare but transformative circumstances under which minds can change.