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Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy
Maybe someday
33
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Readers
64/100Critics
2/100Scholars
Author:
Thomas M. Nichols
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Date:
August 19, 2021
An account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves.
What The Reviewers Say
Nichols provides bleak but thought-provoking analysis.
... this short, conversational book feels like a well-intentioned lecture from Dad to stand up straight, tuck in your shirt, and get a job for Chrissake...By the end, I felt nothing but despair.that’s why the book is so distressing. It isn’t that Nichols, via his good humor and 'moral hectoring,' doesn’t make a persuasive case for the importance of re-embracing our better angels. It’s that our better angels have already decided they’d rather just watch Netflix and chill. And then subtweet us.
... a searing critique.
