The Siege of Ruby Ridge: Why it Matters Today
featuring Chris Jennings
Best-selling Author & former editorial staffer at The New Yorker
Thursday, June 4th, 4-5pm ET, on Zoom
How could this single event in the middle of nowhere, Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992 help ignite this powerful wave of extremism that still shapes our country today?
Chris Jennings joins The Common Good Forum to help us understand how the siege of Ruby RIdge inflamed anti-government extremism, apocalyptic Christianity, and conspiracy politics and the powerful currents in our governance today.
“If you want to understand our troubled and fraught times, you need to grapple with the forces that led to Ruby Ridge. This book [End of Days] blew me away and opened my eyes.” says Walter Isaacson, author of The Code Breaker and Elon Musk.
“A riveting and thoroughly researched chronicle…reminiscent of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.”—The New York Times Book Review
“With eloquence and insight, Chris Jennings has given us an absorbing portrait of a moment whose implications still shape American life and politics. This is an important story, beautifully told.” — Past TCGF Speaker Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of And There Was Light and The Soul of America
“Intellectually rich, superbly written, compulsively readable, End of Days tells the story of Ruby Ridge so well that you will find it hard not to sympathize with its terrible protagonists, whose conspiratorial theology has migrated in three decades from the lunatic fringe to the seat of government.” — Past TCGF Speaker George Packer, National Book Award–winning author of The Unwinding and The Emergency
We encourage attendees to preorder a copy of End Of Days available now via BookShop.
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About Our Speaker
Chris Jennings is the author of End of Days: Ruby Ridge The Apocalypse and The Unmaking of America (2026) and Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism (2016).
A former editorial staffer at The New Yorker, he grew up in New York City and graduated from Deep Springs College and Wesleyan University. Jennings lives in Northern California with his family.