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10/100Scholars
Author:
Andrew Sullivan
Publisher:
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Date:
August 10, 2021
A collection of Andrew Sullivan's arguments on culture, politics, religion, and philosophy.
What The Reviewers Say
To call the book a mere 'collection of essays' is to do it a grave injustice. Perhaps it’s better to call it a series of journeys.
Making your way through the barrage of lies, half-truths, innuendoes, and provocations that characterize this 576-page miscellany of Sullivan’s career has all the appeal of plunging an overfull toilet: you just know shitty water’s going to soak the bathmat. … Sullivan, however, has spent the better part of forty years clinging to fantasies of a rational, compassionate conservatism ‘dedicated to criticizing liberalism’s failures, engaging with it empirically, and offering practical alternatives to the same problems’—as though this is a thing that has ever existed anywhere in the history of the world … At the beginning of this book you get the sense that Sullivan’s gaslighting his readers, but the deeper you go you start to wonder if he’s actually gaslighting himself … That’s right, folks: as many as a million people were killed in a pointless war that Andrew Sullivan hawked like a fishwife for no other reason than his need to punish as many Muslims as possible for 9/11, but what’s important to remember is that he feels really bad about it … he doesn’t realize his alienation stems from wanting to belong to clubs whose members hate him not for what he says or what he does but for what he is..
Trenchant observations from an influential journalist..
[A] frank critique of America’s social and political culture.
