America's Social Justice Affliction

Thomas Chatterton Williams is a well-known essayist and author, now age 44 and resident in Paris rather than the United States since 2012. A biracial black man, he regularly dissents from prevailing conventions and intends this book, his third, to be "an unsentimental assessment of the social justice left, and the agenda-setting institutions that repeatedly caved and pandered to its excesses" in the three-plus years following the May 2020 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. He seeks "to retrace the radical and profound intellectual and social history of that year's rupture" and to critique "the new soft power of identitarian social orthodoxy" that has emerged from "the ill-conceived identity politics of the left."

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