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The Politics of Petulance - America in an Age of Immaturity (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Petulance - America in an Age of Immaturity (Hardcover)
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How did we get into this mess? Every morning, many Americans ask
this as, with a cringe, they pick up their phones and look to see
what terrible thing President Trump has just said or done.
Regardless of what he’s complaining about or whom he’s
attacking, a second question comes hard on the heels of the first:
How on earth do we get out of this? Alan Wolfe has an answer. In
The Politics of Petulance he argues that the core of our problem
isn’t Trump himself—it’s that we are mired in an age of
political immaturity. That immaturity is not grounded in any one
ideology, nor is it a function of age or education. It’s in an
abdication of valuing the character of would-be leaders; it’s in
a failure to acknowledge, even welcome the complexity of government
and society; and it’s in a loss of the ability to be skeptical
without being suspicious. In 2016, many Americans were offered
tantalizingly simple answers to complicated problems, and, like
children being offered a lunch of Pop Rocks and Coke, they
reflexively—and mindlessly—accepted. The good news, such as it
is, is that we’ve been here before. Wolfe reminds us that we know
how to grow up and face down Trump and other demagogues. Wolfe
reinvigorates the tradition of public engagement exemplified by
midcentury intellectuals such as Richard Hofstadter, Reinhold
Niebuhr, and Lionel Trilling—and he draws lessons from their
battles with McCarthyism and conspiratorial paranoia. Wolfe mounts
a powerful case that we can learn from them to forge a new path for
political intervention today. Wolfe has been thinking and writing
about American life and politics for decades. He sees this moment
as one of real risk. But he’s not throwing up his hands; he’s
bracing us. We’ve faced demagogues before. We can find the
intellectual maturity to fight back. Yes we can.
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