Some critical comments on my second book from Todd Dufresne in his “warning that the systemic violence of post-capitalist society will be met with violence” and some more constructive engagement from Denis Vyaznikov in a recent Thesis 11 article. Great to read, and to be read!
Dr. Maxwell Kennel
Senior Research Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Far-Right Studies
Director of Pandora Press and Editor of the Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies Series.
Co-Investigator on the CREATE Project and Affiliate at the Arcand Centre for Health Equity at NOSM University.
Author of Postsecular History (Palgrave, 2022) and Ontologies of Violence (Brill, 2023).
Editor of Astrid von Schlachta’s Anabaptists. Trans. Victor Thiessen (Pandora, 2024), Thomas Kaufman’s The Anabaptists. Trans. Christina Moss (Pandora, 2024), and Hans-Jürgen Goertz’s Conrad Grebel (1498-1526): Critic of Pious Facades. Trans. Christina Moss (Pandora, 2025).
Co-Editor of Messianic Imagination (Cascade, 2025), and (with Berit Jany), Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Anabaptists: A Comedy in Two Acts. Trans. Lauren Friesen (Pandora, 2025).
Dr. Maxwell Kennel 