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4.8
54 reviewsMichiko Kakutani, the Pulitzer-winning former New York Times book critic, presents a dire view of discourse in a world of fakery & fanaticism: scientific expertise on topics like climate change gets attacked as self-interested baloney; Russian disinformation operations churn out fake news that induces public confusion & sways elections; President Trump lies continually—5.9 times per day, Kakutani specifies — with impunity; America & the world are divided into warring tribes in ideological bubbles impermeable to objective data or civilized discussion.
Kakutani blames not just the populist right but the postmodern, literary theory of the academic left— formerly subversive critical stances that, she argues, have bequeathed a nihilistic rejection of reason & Enlightenment values. Citing writers including Hannah Arendt, George Orwell, & David Foster Wallace, Kakutani offers a sophisticated, wide-ranging exploration of theories of propaganda & debased speech & their insidious effects.
Unfortunately, she takes her critique to extremes, likening Trump to Hitler, Lenin, & Mussolini, conjuring omnipotent conspiracies of Kremlin-backed tweeters, & spying totalitarian portents everywhere. Like much anti-Trump ire, Kakutani’s polemic trades in the same histrionics that it deplores.
