“While acting on vengeful feelings clearly needs to be discouraged, acknowledging them should be not merely permitted but encouraged,” wrote Jared M. Diamond in an essay in The New Yorker last April.

In his latest book Upheaval, Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and professor of geography at UCLA, begins with a story of a personal crisis. After completing his undergraduate degree he ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Jared M. Diamond is a Professor for the Geography Department in the University of California, Los Angeles with 11 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a ...