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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Updated with a new afterword
'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues' – Jordan B. Peterson
'An excellent take on the lunacy affecting much of the world today. Douglas is one of the bright lights that could lead us out of the darkness.' – Joe Rogan
Are we living through the great derangement of our times?
In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of 'woke' culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, with interludes on the Marxist foundations of 'wokeness', the impact of tech and how, in an increasingly online culture, we must relearn the ability to forgive.
One of the few writers who dares to counter the prevailing view and question the dramatic changes in our society – from gender reassignment for children to the impact of transgender rights on women – Murray's penetrating book, now published with a new afterword taking account of the book's reception and responding to the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, clears a path of sanity through the fog of our modern predicament.
Table of Contents
Gay
Interlude – The Marxist Foundations
Women
Interlude – The Impact of Tech
Race
Interlude – On Forgiveness
Trans
Conclusion
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
Product details
Published | Feb 23 2021 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 304 |
ISBN | 9781635579949 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Continuum |
Dimensions | 8 x 6 inches |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Simply brilliant. Reading it to the end, I felt as though I'd just drawn my first full breath in years. At a moment of collective madness, there is nothing more refreshing--or, indeed, provocative--than sanity.
Sam Harris, author of five New York Times bestsellers and host of the Making Sense podcast
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Superb
Andrew Sullivan, New York Magazine
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A really important, endlessly readable, well-written work.
Madeleine Kerns, National Review
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Murray cuts through the doubt-sowing incoherence of social-justice babble to say - eloquently - what 95 per cent of us believe, but have been made fearful to say aloud. Read it.
Barbara Kay, National Post
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From the silly to the tragic, Murray covers the range of identititarian pathology without ever losing his cool. The result is a book that is less a political war cry than a map and compass to a strange world of shifting topographies and endless inconsistencies.
Abe Greenwald, Commentary
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Whether one agrees with him or not, Douglas Murray is one of the most important public intellectuals today.
Bernard-Henri Lévy