You Mad?
No alternative, no future: How anger consumed the modern world.
Author Pankaj Mishra examines the rise of populist anger across the modern world - as reaction to (and against) a neoliberal consensus with nothing to offer working people, and as sign of democracy's slow corruption under capitalism - and calls for the left to fundamentally transform its mission to one of solidarity and liberation, beyond the chains of economic self-interest.
Pankaj is author of Age of Anger: A History of the Present from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
We are not smarter than how we feel: On art, influence and power.
Author Nato Thompson explains how art and culture became a weapon aimed at the public - by expanding the influence of the powerful across society, and revealing the deeply emotional dimension to life and politics long concealed by liberal appeals to rationalism - and what Roger Ailes understands about human nature that Plato just couldn't get.
Nato is author of Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life from Melville House.
