{"product_id":"summer-of-our-discontent-the-age-of-certainty-and-the-demise-of-discourse","title":"Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse","description":"An 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.\n\n\"Summer of our Discontent [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 New York Times bestselling author of The Anxious Generation\n\nIn 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.\n\nWilliams 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.\n\nSure to be highly controversial, Summer of Our Discontent is a compelling look at our place in a radically changing world.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0593534409\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0593534409.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Chatterton Williams, Thomas\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41589264121914,"sku":"DBV.0593534409.VG","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0593534409-0.jpg?v=1786505588","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/summer-of-our-discontent-the-age-of-certainty-and-the-demise-of-discourse","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}