{"product_id":"summer-of-our-discontent-isbn-9780593534403","title":"Summer of Our Discontent","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn incisive, culturally observant analysis of the evolving mores, manners and taboos of social justice (“anti-racist”) orthodoxy, which has profoundly influenced how we think about diversity and freedom of expression, often with complex or paradoxical consequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Summer of our Discontent \u003c\/i\u003e[is] a gift: a way of understanding what happened to us that preserves the humanity of all parties and points the way forward toward renewal.” —Jonathan Haidt, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Anxious Generation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this provocative book, Thomas Chatterton Williams, one of the most revered and reviled social commentators of our time, paints a clear and detailed picture of the ideas and events that have paved the way for the dramatic paradigm shift in social justice that has taken place over the past few years. Taking aim at the ideology of critical race theory, the rise of an oppressive social media, the fall from Obama to Trump, and the twinned crises of COVID-19 and the murder of George Floyd, Williams documents the extent to which this transition has altered media, artistic creativity, education, employment, policing, and, most profoundly, the ambient language and culture we use to make sense of our lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliams also decries how liberalism—the very foundation of an open and vibrant society—is in existential crisis, under assault from both the right and the left, especially in our predominantly networked, Internet-driven monoculture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSure to be highly controversial, \u003ci\u003eSummer of Our Discontent\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling look at our place in a radically changing world.“Even when I disagree, I admire those ‘Hard-Headed Negroes,’ like Thomas Chatterton Williams, who have the mettle and tenacity to challenge orthodoxy, often risking censure by their contemporaries for daring to speak their minds. Thomas Chatterton Williams has taken his place among these brilliant dissenters.”\u003cbr\u003e—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Distinguished Professor, Harvard University  \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Mass insanity broke out among America's elites in the summer of 2020, with devastating consequences for America's knowledge-creating institutions. Thomas Chatterton Williams is one of the few intellectuals who stood firm and made the case with great courage for liberal values and the free exchange of ideas. In \u003ci\u003eSummer of our Discontent \u003c\/i\u003ehe returns with a gift: a way of understanding what happened to us that preserves the humanity of all parties and points the way forward toward renewal.”\u003cbr\u003e—Jonathan Haidt, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Anxious Generation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e“Thomas Chatterton Williams uses a fiercely probing intelligence, instinctively dissatisfied with absolutist explanations, to explore without ideological blindfolds what happened in one momentous summer. Camus would have liked this book.”\u003cbr\u003e—Adam Gopnik, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Real Work\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Thomas Chatterton Williams manages to make moral and cultural sense of a profoundly perplexing time. By seeing clearly, reflecting honestly, writing with real power and style, and beginning from the premise that no faction is entirely right or entirely wrong, he offers genuine illumination. This is an essential book.”\u003cbr\u003e—Yuval Levin, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Covenant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eTHOMAS CHATTERTON WILLIAMS is a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic \u003c\/i\u003eand the author of \u003ci\u003eLosing My Cool\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait in Black and White. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is a visiting professor of humanities and senior fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, a 2022 Guggenheim fellow, and a non-resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously a contributing writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and a columnist at \u003ci\u003eHarper’s,\u003c\/i\u003e he has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker,\u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLe Monde, \u003c\/i\u003eamong other publications. 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