This sharp collection of essays from Nathan J. Robinson, editor-in-chief of Current Affairs magazine, shows the bankruptcy of conservative ideas and the value of a humane, egalitarian alternative to the cruel status quo.
With his characteristic precision and humor, Robinson convincingly argues that the critics of social justice politics have overstated its problems and avoided grappling with its substantial insights and arguments. By unraveling, and rebuffing, anti-woke conservative provocations on their own terms, and forthrightly defending the left’s core values, Robinson offers a compelling and nuanced riposte to the social justice movement’s most compulsive detractors.
Chapters include deft take-downs of figures including Jordan Peterson, Tucker Carlson, Bari Weiss, David Brooks, Donald Trump, Jr., and Charles Murray, and incisive discussions of a variety of concepts associated with the left.
A systematic, thoughtful, and lively demolition of the flimsy intellectual chicanery of contemporary critics of the left.
